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Adams 14’s enrollment down again, so school district looks up to billboards
The district will spend more than $40,000 on an advertising project in the hopes of drawing families back and attracting students from other districts.
Jeffco Public Schools paid $170K for a report on school closures in 2017. The challenges remain.
Jeffco Public Schools paid an education consulting firm $170,000 in 2017 to look at how other districts handle school closures and make recommendations, but the report was shelved and never...
Aurora students will learn virtually for their first quarter this fall
Aurora鈥檚 school board on Friday asked to change its district抖阴ap fall reopening plan to start school online.
Jeffco Public Schools will allow all students to return to classrooms this fall
The district had already announced that聽elementary schools would open for students聽to return to classes five days a week. Because that plan involves grouping students to interact with only a small...
“It was so special”: Colorado high schools host creative graduations during the pandemic
Graduation comes at a tenuous time in the public battle to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Many people are pent up after weeks of tight restrictions, and families are...
A 16-year-old Denver girl died this week of coronavirus, school officials say
Jaqueline Paisano, who everyone knew as Jackie, died of COVID-19 complications Monday night, according to George Washington High School Principal Kristin Waters. She would have been 17 next month. She...
Colorado teachers of color push for diversifying educator ranks
Colorado鈥檚 teachers largely don鈥檛 look like the students they serve and the gap has mostly stayed the same for five years. District policies don鈥檛 easily translate to practice in part...
Colorado school districts vary in approach to online learning during coronavirus closures
When Denver Public Schools announced it would close for the next three weeks, it cast the closure as an extended spring break. That means no classes or schoolwork, even online.
Amid coronavirus fears, the CDC told schools to plan for remote learning. That抖阴ap harder than it sounds.
As schools grapple with responding to the new coronavirus and the federal government抖阴ap recommendation to plan for extended closures, one thing is becoming clear: remote learning remains a remote possibility.
Coronavirus has arrived in Colorado. One school district has lessons from its battle with another highly contagious illness.
With coronavirus now present in Colorado, leaders of the 22,000-student Mesa County Valley District 51 aren鈥檛 letting their recent experience with a contagious stomach bug go to waste.