Adams 14 district, parents at Dupont Elementary plan to fight gasoline storage expansion near...

The Denver Post (Education) 9/3 2:00A Noelle Phillips

Opposition to an oil and gas storage site s expansion across the street from an elementary school near Commerce City is growing, with Adams County School District 14 s Board of Education authorizing its attorney to pursue a legal challenge. At...

Colorado might ease SAT graduation requirement after big drops in high school math scores

The Denver Post (Education) 8/30 2:00A Yesenia Robles

Colorado next month may lower the passing score on high school math tests many students use to meet graduation requirements, the latest potential fallout from test scores that fell dramatically this year. Without such a change, it’s possible...

These are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2024 CMAS tests

The Denver Post (Education) 8/29 7:00A Jessica Seaman

Students at Polaris Elementary in Denver continue to earn the highest scores on the annual Colorado Measures of Academic Success test, according to data released by the Colorado Department of Education on Thursday. As it did last year , the...

Search your school’s 2024 CMAS scores

The Denver Post (Education) 8/29 7:00A Kevin Hamm

The Colorado Department of Education released CMAS scores for Colorado schools for the 2023-24 school year . Use this database to see how students in your school scored. Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email...

More Colorado students’ math and literacy scores surpass pre-pandemic levels

The Denver Post (Education) 8/20 5:30A Jessica Seaman

Test scores among Colorado’s elementary and middle-school students continue to recover since schools temporarily shuttered in 2020, with this spring s literacy and math scores reaching and in some cases surpassing pre-pandemic levels, according...

CU’s School of Medicine is first to move to new model for training doctors

The Denver Post (Education) 7/29 2:00A Meg Wingerter

The University of Colorado s School of Medicine is the first in the country to shift entirely to a new way of training doctors, with the hope of producing graduates who more naturally see patients as...

Colorado Mesa University’s leaders took a risk to combat FAFSA delays. They lost money — but...

The Denver Post (Education) 7/28 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

The leaders of Colorado Mesa University proposed a financial gamble at the beginning of the year. They d gathered for a January board meeting to discuss how the Grand Junction university, which...

Help The Denver Post report on the 2024-25 Colorado school year

The Denver Post (Education) 7/9 2:00A Jessica Seaman

The Denver Post is gearing up for the 2024-25 school year that starts next month and in doing so is looking for new stories to tell about Colorado’s public schools. To understand what is happening in K-12 classrooms, The Post wants to hear from...

Colorado students and colleges are rebounding from FAFSA fiasco, but financial aid applications are...

The Denver Post (Education) 7/9 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

The number of aspiring Colorado college students who submitted their federal financial aid forms rebounded in recent months after the bungled rollout of a new system and even though applications are still behind pace, university administrators...

Judge dismisses universal preschool lawsuit brought by Colorado school districts

The Denver Post (Education) 7/5 7:21A Ann Schimke

A Denver district court judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by several Colorado school districts over the state’s universal preschool program, ruling that the plaintiffs don’t have legal grounds to sue. In his 20-page ruling, Judge Jon...

Colorado schools got nearly $2 billion in COVID aid. Now the money is ending and districts face...

The Denver Post (Education) 7/1 2:00A Jessica Seaman

Nearly $2 billion in federal aid flowed into Colorado school districts’ coffers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and, with that money, they expanded tutoring for children, started after-school and summer programs and increased mental...