Yesenia Robles

Colorado's adoption of tougher academic standards — and tests meant to measure students' mastery of them such as PARCC — have changed how teachers teach and students learn.(Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)

Aurora school board approves resolution to protect immigrant students, though some raise questions

June 22, 2017 at 3:21 p.m.

The Aurora school board unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday aimed at helping immigrant students feel safer, but not before fault lines emerged over its title and intent.

Aurora Public Schools Superintendent, Rico Munn, ...

Parents, students press Aurora school district to protect immigrant students

April 27, 2017 at 9:03 a.m.

Dozens of Aurora students and parents are pressing the Aurora Public Schools board to adopt a resolution for 鈥渟afe and inclusive鈥� schools.

Westminster schools lose appeal seeking higher performance rating

April 25, 2017 at 9:27 a.m.

The Colorado Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to deny Westminster Public Schools appeal to raise its quality rating.

Stack of school books and apple on desk in empty classroom

Proposed Aurora schools budget cuts not as dire as feared

June 22, 2017 at 3:19 p.m.

Aurora Public Schools鈥� budget situation is not as precarious as previously thought, causing the district to step back from more drastic scenarios such as eliminating full-day kindergarten, cutting sports and...

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Former Jeffco superintendent lands new job as leader of charter school network

April 5, 2017 at 9:04 a.m.

Former Jeffco Public Schools Superintendent Dan McMinimee has been named head of a growing charter school network catering to immigrant and at-risk students.

Students load the bus outside Greenlee Elementary School in Denver, August 22, 2016.

Limited transportation undermines school choice — even in Denver

March 22, 2017 at 4:36 p.m.

Six years after Denver Public Schools created an innovative bus shuttle system to help get students to school, the effort has expanded and evolved but the larger problem it tried...

Dan McMinimee to get superintendent抖阴ap wages while serving as Jeffco board adviser

March 10, 2017 at 1:44 p.m.

Dan McMinimee will continue drawing the same salary he did as superintendent of Jeffco Public Schools while serving in an advisory role through the end of his contract.

A classroom at the Edna and John W. Mosley P-8 in Auror. The school opened at the beginning of this school year. (Anya Semenoff, The Denver Post)

Options to cut Aurora school budget include full-day kindergarten

February 22, 2017 at 9:21 a.m.

Now, as Aurora Public Schools searches for ways to cut its 2017-18 budget, free full-day kindergarten is among one of scores of programs that could fall victim.

Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn has a laugh with student Wesley Tun-Medina, 12, during a math card game at North Middle School June 17, 2014.

Aurora schools weighs long list of possible cuts to trim budget by $31 million

January 27, 2017 at 11:02 a.m.

Eliminating full-day kindergarten, adding furlough days and cutting middle school sports are among the steps Aurora Public Schools is considering to shrink next year鈥檚 budget as the district copes with...

How one high-poverty JeffCo school boosted its high school graduation rate

January 25, 2017 at 11:40 a.m.

Eighty percent of Jefferson Jr./Sr. High School seniors last school year graduated in four years 鈥� a much higher percentage of students than in past years. The Class of 2015...

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