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...

Denver tore down their homes to build the Auraria Campus. Now they finally get a say in what’s left...

The Denver Post (Education) 6/27 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Frances Torres, a displaced Aurarian, speaks during an Auraria Campus Board of Directors meeting at the Tivoli Student Center in Denver on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver...

University of Colorado unveils Center for Psychedelic Research in Denver

The Denver Post (Education) 6/27 2:00A Tiney Ricciardi

Denver has been a cultural epicenter for psychedelics since becoming the first city to effectively decriminalize “magic mushrooms” in 2019. Now it aims to be a hub for science related to psychedelic substances with the opening of a university...

“You’re in a room of people that get it”: Northern Colorado long COVID support group navigates life...

The Denver Post (Education) 6/23 3:00A Morgan Mckenzie

After contracting a COVID-19 infection, Nate Freeman of Windsor lost hope as symptoms of long COVID lingered well after his infection. A support group for long COVID patients that began meeting this...

Pro-charter PAC pours nearly $1 million into single Colorado State Board of Education primary

The Denver Post (Education) 6/22 2:00A Jessica Seaman

Nearly $1 million mostly from a group supporting charter schools has poured into the Democratic primary for a seat on the Colorado State Board of Education, a race that some observers say could play a role in the future of charters in the state....

Douglas County High School teacher arrested for child sex assault

The Denver Post (Education) 6/20 10:36A Katie Langford

A 55-year-old Douglas County High School social studies teacher was arrested for sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust on Tuesday. James Thomure, a Centennial resident, is in custody at the Douglas County Detention Facility on a...

Just outside the school gate, America’s gun violence epidemic surrounds its students

The Denver Post (Education) 6/19 8:13A Chalkbeat Colorado

By Olga Pierce , Jennifer Mascia and Mensah M. Dean , Chalkbeat On Nov. 7, as school was getting out for the day, one teenager shot another across from Morristown-Hamblen West High School in Morristown, Tennessee, an Appalachian town of 31,000...

Denver Public Schools updates discipline policies but stops short of overhauling expulsions,...

The Denver Post (Education) 6/14 2:00A Jessica Seaman

Denver Public Schools has revised its discipline matrix, which was criticized after last year’s shooting at East High School , but the district stopped short of making significant changes to its guidance on when students should be expelled or...

Denver Public Schools enrollment projected to fall by more than 6,300 students by 2028

The Denver Post (Education) 6/10 2:00A Jessica Seaman

Denver Public Schools projects 6,338 fewer children will attend its schools within the next five years as the declining K-12 enrollment continues to hit Colorado districts – and their budgets – despite the unexpected boost from last year s surge...

Colorado to use $20 million from Juul vaping settlement to fund youth mental health services

The Denver Post (Education) 6/4 8:30A Jessica Seaman

The Colorado Department of Law will use settlement money from a nationwide lawsuit against electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs to provide up to $20 million in grants to community groups working to increase youth mental health services and curb...

Dinosaur footprints, fossils discovered “in our own backyard” in Broomfield

The Denver Post (Education) 6/1 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

BROOMFIELD Past fields of yellow wildflowers, tall grass and prairie dog burrows, an Adams County geology teacher, four of his students and the Broomfield mayor huddled around the fossilized footprint...

Denver Public Schools to consider placing nearly $1 billion bond measure on November ballot

The Denver Post (Education) 5/31 2:00A Jessica Seaman

A Denver Public Schools committee will present a bond proposal to the Board of Education next month that would raise nearly $1 billion, a measure that, if placed on the November ballot, would represent the most money the district has ever sought...