Experts are hopeful a new state law will lead more facility schools to open. Meanwhile, school districts are creating their own programs, and creative and skilled educators are finding ways to meet students’ needs in traditional classrooms.
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Colorado is pouring more money into schools for kids with special needs. But are those schools working?
The special schools have no central oversight and instead are the responsibility of multiple state agencies. A new law aims to increase accountability.
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Students in rural Colorado are left without options as specialized facility schools close
A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.
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The schools that take Colorado’s “most vulnerable” students are disappearing. Should they be saved?
Colorado is racing to save the schools that serve children whose home districts can’t or won’t meet their intense needs
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Colorado promises $70 million over 3 years, hopes to see 12 new facility schools open
The additional support will help the beleaguered facility school system grow by 40% statewide