As a former educator, this time of the year reminds me of preparing my classroom to welcome my students for the new school year. It reminds me of the excitement with which my students would look forward to what they would learn in the months ahead. While I am no longer teaching and will not […]
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Opinion: Want to solve the climate crisis? Stop widening roads
Today, children around the world will walk out of their schools to demand adults act now to keep from making their world uninhabitable. To honor this second Global Climate Strike, Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Michael Hancock must commit to stop building new roads and expanding the ones we have. Transportation is the largest source […]
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Denver schools could soon have too few students — meaning consolidation might be coming. Here’s why.
By Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado As Denver families are pushed out by high housing costs, declining enrollment is emerging as a notable budget issue for the school district, signaling that hard conversations about school consolidations could be coming. A recent presentation to the Denver school board highlighted the challenges. One of the biggest? The predicted […]
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Opinion: Make summer learning more accessible to Colorado families
The cost for a family to participate in summer learning at a camp can be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars per week, according to the American Camp Association. If summer break is around 10 weeks long, that’s a considerably large price tag on many types of summer exploration and […]
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Opinion: Public schools aren’t failing. They’re what makes our nation great.
Public education represents one of America’s greatest assets. The strength of our nation has been, and always will be, inextricably linked to the quality of our public schools. Just as public schools bring us together as a country, they create a collective base of knowledge that is foundational to our democracy. To ensure our nation’s […]
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Opinion: Colorado will lead the effort to end the student debt crisis
We are in the midst of a crisis. With Americans shouldering $1.5 trillion in student debt, we must waste no time in taking meaningful action to help alleviate this tremendous burden. Today, 730,000 Coloradans each owe, on average, more than $36,000 in student loan debt. And it’s not only recent graduates or millennials — more […]
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To boost student attendance and well-being, more Colorado schools ask: “Need help with laundry?”
By Anne Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado Smiling shyly, 9-year-old Morgan Pohl tossed a heap of clothes into the washer and carefully added detergent to the top of the machine. She hit the start button and headed off to lunch in the next room — the cafeteria at Doull Elementary School in southwest Denver. Doing laundry at […]