By Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado Teachers have a lot at stake in what happens in their classrooms, but does that give them legal standing to challenge outside intervention in low-performing schools and districts? That’s the first question a Denver district judge must answer in two lawsuits brought by teachers unions to block external managers from taking […]
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More than a third of Colorado high school graduates need extra help to do college work
By Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat Colorado More than a third of Colorado students who graduated from high school in 2017 were flagged as needing additional help in reading or math to do college-level work. This number has barely budged in the 17 years that the Colorado Department of Higher Education has reported on developmental education needs, […]
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Garage sales and GoFundMe campaigns are nice, but Colorado districts want a better fix for school lunch debt
By Anne Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado A Boulder mom raised more than $40,000 to pay off debt from school lunches that district students ate but couldn’t pay for, even garnering a hefty donation on the Rachael Ray Show. A teacher at Denver’s McGlone Academy raised $525 this spring to help feed students at her school. An […]
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A Colorado anti-tax group is trying halt a new law aimed at boosting early childhood education funding
By Sandra Fish, Chalkbeat Colorado An anti-tax group wants to overturn a law allowing local governments to create special districts to pay for early childhood education. The Colorado Union of Taxpayers received approval Friday to gather signatures to try to repeal House Bill 1052. That bill allows local governments to ask voters to approve special districts […]