By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado The closure Monday of the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus for at least two weeks due to the spread of the coronavirus felt like an inevitable conclusion for some students and professors. Senior Laura-Elena Porras, 21, said school officials had to know the culture that exists on and off campus. […]
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Gov. Jared Polis launches $32.7 million fund to incubate ideas to improve student learning during coronavirus
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado To continue the battle against fallout from COVID-19, Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday launched a $32.7 million grant program that seeks to create innovations that help the state’s most disadvantaged students. In an interview with Chalkbeat, Polis said he hopes the Response, Innovation, and Student Equity Education Fund, known as RISE, […]
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Why thousands of Colorado students disconnected from school despite hotspots and internet deals
When COVID-19 hit, the internet became an essential school supply. Districts in the Denver metro area scrambled to meet the need, collectively spending more than $1 million in the past five months to buy mobile hotspots and pay families’ internet bills so children could learn. Philanthropies and foundations have spent even more. But the effort […]
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Colorado hopes a new higher education funding formula will make a difference for students. It may not be easy.
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado Dangling the lure of state funding, Colorado wants to encourage its public colleges to better serve disadvantaged students. But the latest update to its funding formula, which uses seven criteria to judge community and state colleges and universities, may not work as well as intended, according to studies and experience in […]
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What one Colorado college learned trying to run safe in-person classes this summer
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado As a full-time student at New York University this past spring, Sejal Porter saw firsthand just how devastating the coronavirus can be. So she understands why instructors at Arapahoe Community College, where she temporarily enrolled this summer, had to revamp the hands-on training program for her emergency medical technician classes. […]
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Some Colorado colleges project optimistic student enrollment numbers. But experts remain wary.
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado As the worst of the coronavirus pandemic set in, Jordan Stewart, 18, weighed whether he should take a year off from school instead of heading to college. The Aurora teen eventually decided he should enroll at the University of Colorado Boulder. “I just realized that if I do take time […]
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Colorado federal student aid applications dip during the coronavirus pandemic
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters Getting students to apply for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid was a problem for Colorado before the pandemic. For those that work with students to get them […]
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Colorado will allow colleges to teach in-person as long as classrooms are at half capacity
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters Under new state guidance, Colorado colleges and universities can immediately offer in-person instruction for every class as long as they limit attendance to 50% capacity per room, up to […]
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Colorado’s shift to a new higher education funding formula places the focus on the student
By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters For years, Colorado has funded its public higher education institutions primarily by how many students they can enroll. Now the state instead will weigh more heavily how well an […]
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Less learning and late guidance: School districts struggle to help English language learners during COVID-19 crisis
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters By Yesenia Robles and Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat Just a few months back, high school students learning English as a second language in the Adams 14 school district outside Denver spent 53 minutes a day in a special […]