Longtime Colorado College English professor Claire Oberon Garcia assumes the title of Colorado State Historian as history, and how it’s taught, takes on an increasingly contentious role.
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Tickets and arrests didn’t go up when SROs reintroduced to Denver schools, police data shows
When school starts in Denver next month, school resource officers will be back
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Colorado students at private career school that lost accreditation get $130 million in federal loan relief
In all, 7,400 former students enrolled at the three CollegeAmerica locations in Colorado between Jan. 1, 2006, and July 1, 2020, will have their federal student loans refunded
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How Colorado is trying to get more students with intellectual disabilities into college
Forty-four students with intellectual disabilities have graduated from public colleges in Colorado since 2020. Here’s the story behind the push.
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Rural Colorado to benefit from $85 million for workforce development — including nursing resources — amid shortage
Colorado needs thousands more nurses a year to keep up with growing demand amid staffing shortages and retirements in the health care workforce. But a $1.3 million grant to the Colorado State University Pueblo graduate school and nursing program as part of an $85 million state project is intended to keep adequate health care flowing […]
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SROs to stay at 13 Denver campuses, armed officers to help with weapons searches under safety plan
Superintendent Alex Marrero called the plan “an index of what we have to offer.”
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Denver’s first big merger of charter school networks poses leadership test
Hundreds of employees leave as union of Rocky Mountain Prep and STRIVE Prep spawns tense, chaotic year
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Littwin: The Trump-McConnell-Roberts Supreme Court strikes again. And again. And again.
Columnist Mike Littwin weighs in on the latest SCOTUS decisions and the conservative majority’s effort to roll back the clock.
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Nicolais: The Supreme Court locks in systemic racial disparity with two cases on higher education
By undermining affirmative action and halting student debt relief, the Supreme Court ended programs intended to close the institutional divide that has only grown in recent years
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Colorado universities will double down on diversity after Supreme Court effectively barred affirmative action
The Court on Thursday limited the role of race in admissions in private and public higher education institutions. Here’s how Colorado colleges are responding.