Oprah Winfrey speaks at Colorado College graduation in Colorado Springs

The Denver Post (Education) 5/19 12:06P The Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS Oprah Winfrey tells college graduates in Colorado small steps lead to big accomplishments. Winfrey gave the commencement speech Sunday at Colorado College. The small liberal arts college in Colorado Springs awarded 590...

Billionaire Denverite Robert F. Smith pledges to pay off student loan debt for Morehouse College...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/19 8:25A Saja Hindi

Billionaire Denverite Robert F. Smith announced to a class of about 400 graduating seniors at Morehouse College that he and his family plan to pay off the entire class s student loans. My family is going to create a grant to eliminate your...

Colorado school districts turn to converted buses, donated PB&J to feed more kids over summer

The Denver Post (Education) 5/19 2:00A Meg Wingerter

Classes may be winding down for the summer in Colorado, but work is far from over for the people in charge of school lunches. Denver Public Schools is making preparations to serve breakfast and lunch...

Colorado congressman wants probe reopened into claim feds tried to censor CU researcher’s...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/19 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

A Colorado congressman is urging the U.S. Department of Interior s inspector general to reopen an investigation into claims the National Park Service tried to scrub references to human-caused climate change from a University of Colorado researcher...

Denver school board to consider limiting use of handcuffs on young students

The Denver Post (Education) 5/17 9:08A Melanie Asmar

Following an incident in which a Denver family went public with the story of their 7-year-old son being handcuffed by a school security officer, the Denver school board is considering banning the use of handcuffs on elementary students, with the...

Broncos holding STEM School Highlands Ranch graduation at training center

The Denver Post (Education) 5/17 4:02A Kirk Mitchell

Graduation ceremonies for STEM School Highlands Ranch seniors will be Monday at the Denver Broncos UCHealth Training Center in Dove Valley, school officials have announced. The graduation will go from 6:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. at 13655 E. Broncos...

Run, hide or fight? Heroism during STEM School shooting praised, but some worry coverage will push...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/17 2:00A Jessica Seaman, Meg Wingerter

When two teenagers began firing on their classmates at STEM School Highlands Ranch last week, at least three students charged one of the suspects — a decision that cost one of the teens his life....

DSST Stapleton changing name because of former Denver mayor’s KKK ties

The Denver Post (Education) 5/16 1:04P Meg Wingerter

The original campus of the Denver School of Science and Technology announced Thursday it will change its name to honor a street, rather than a former mayor with ties to racist groups. Students at DSST Stapleton, located at  2000 Valentia St.,...

Altercation between substitute teacher and student at Denver middle school under investigation

The Denver Post (Education) 5/16 6:13A Kirk Mitchell

Denver Public Schools is investigating an incident in which a substitute teacher allegedly got into an altercation with a student at Hamilton Middle School on Wednesday, authorities say. Hamilton Principal Christian Sawyer sent a letter Wednesday...

H-1B: S.F. tech firm sues feds over denied visa for Indian man with U.S. master’s degree

The Denver Post (Education) 5/16 4:14A Ethan Baron

San Francisco technology firm Xterra Solutions is suing the federal government, claiming immigration officials improperly denied an H-1B visa to an Indian man on the basis that the business systems analyst position he was to fill did not qualify...

How do you plan graduation in the wake of a school shooting? Former Columbine principal helping STEM...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/16 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Frank DeAngelis is a keeper of knowledge he wishes he never had to learn, like how to plan a high school graduation for a community wracked with heartache in the wake of a school shooting. AAron...

Kendrick Castillo, STEM School shooting hero, is celebrated with Jeeps, robots and a declaration...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/15 9:27A Sam Tabachnik

HIGHLAND RANCH — With tears running down his cheeks, a STEM School Highlands Ranch teacher presented the first blue and white honor cords of the technology student honor society to a 2019 graduating senior. Instead of draping them around a student...

Old, misleading info among perils of teaching climate change

The Denver Post (Education) 5/15 8:43A Michael Melia

When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she d never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit s hole of misinformation: Many resources presented online as educational material were actually junk. It is a pretty...

Colorado school immunization database

The Denver Post (Education) 5/15 8:38A Kevin Hamm, Jessica Seaman

Related stories * How vulnerable is Colorado to a measles outbreak due to its low vaccination rate? * Vaccination bill dead in Colorado Senate, sparking accusations of putting politics before kids’ health * Colorado advises people to get measles...

“You never expect that to happen”: STEM student Josh Jones rushed to take down school shooter

The Denver Post (Education) 5/14 3:50P Sam Tabachnik

Josh Jones was at his desk, watching The Princess Bride in his 12th-grade British Literature class in STEM School Highlands Ranch, when a classmate entered the room, pulled out a gun and said, Nobody...