Whether you agree with the politics, you should know the history behind how and why it happened. So should your kids.
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Opinion: Set up the next generation for success with financial literacy education
Too few Colorado students have access to basic education about managing their money.
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Opinion: What’s the obstacle to pushing broadband into underserved areas? The humble utility pole
The permit process can be complicated and opaque. Schoolchildren are paying the price of delay.
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Proposition FF: Slashing tax breaks for the wealthy would fund program giving all Colorado public school students free meals
The measure would create a new school meals program funded by reducing the state income tax deductions that can be claimed by households that earn more than $300,000 in federal adjusted gross income
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Inside Jeffco Kids First, the group at the center of “furries” controversy in Colorado’s gubernatorial race
Republican Heidi Ganahl is citing Jeffco Kids First as she warns about distractions in schools. The Jeffco Public Schools board president says the rhetoric is “demonizing our kids.”
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Carman: We were winning the war on poverty last year. This year, we surrendered our ground.
Colorado voters can have a real impact on child poverty in November by electing candidates who makes kids a priority
Posted inEducation
As many Colorado teachers flee their jobs, these four new educators dove headfirst into the classroom
The Colorado Sun interviewed four teachers in their inaugural year about what steered them toward a career instructing students at a time educators have been inundated with new pressures
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Opinion: No thanks to instant gratification on student loan debt
Fixing the college-education system would be better than quick payoffs now
Posted inCrime and Courts
Judge dismisses charges against school administrator accused in Brush student sexting case
Though misguided, Scott Hodgson didn’t violate the spirit of child porn laws when he OK’d preserving explicit Snapchat images, judge rules
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Opinion: Social-studies standards should retain instruction on LGBTQ+ families
It’s not sex education; it’s education about the spectrum of family structure