Tag: Chalkbeat Colorado
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Colorado’s 2026 Teacher of the Year is Greeley social studies teacher Stephen Paulson
Social studies teacher Stephen Paulson was named Colorado’s 2026 teacher of the year on Thursday — the first ever winner from the Greeley-Evans school district. Paulson, who teaches at Greeley Central High School, was mobbed with celebrating students after a Thursday morning ceremony in the school’s gym. A high school teacher for 11 years, Paulson…
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An advocate for Latino students, this teen honored as an emerging leader in Colorado
When Osvaldo Garcia Barron started high school, he was often the only student of color in his advanced classes. He struggled to speak up and wondered if he had anything to contribute. The start of the pandemic interrupted his freshman year of high school. But instead of coming out of it feeling isolated, Garcia Barron…
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Colorado poll finds voters skeptical of college, more supportive of career education
It’s more important for Colorado schools to prepare students for the workforce than to prepare them to attend college. That’s the opinion of more than 60% of respondents in a recent poll of education attitudes among Colorado voters. Magellan Strategies surveyed a representative group of 1,550 Colorado registered voters in September. The survey has a…
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Anderson won’t seek waiver of Denver school board conflict-of-interest policy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver school board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson says he no longer wants a waiver from a board policy that bars sitting members from working for Denver Public Schools. The board planned to vote on temporarily suspending its conflict-of-interest policy Thursday but pulled the issue from…
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Marshmallows vs. chocolate: Kids tackle first day of school amid Colorado’s universal preschool launch
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Would you rather eat only chocolate or only marshmallows?” teacher Jordan Parsons asked the gaggle of preschoolers sitting on the rug in front of her. Most of the 13 kids bounded to the left side of the rug, several gleefully jumping and shrieking at the…
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Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado schools ‘are investigating themselves’
Editor’s note: We’re republishing this 2020 story from Chalkbeat in light of accusations of an “incarceration room” at McAuliffe International. The lawyer for the school’s former principal rejected such a characterization by members of the Denver Public Schools board. Nearly every day, Brenna Wann saw staff members take young students, sometimes kicking and screaming, to…
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Tickets and arrests didn’t increase when SROs were reinstated at Denver schools, police data shows
Tickets and arrests of students at 13 Denver Public Schools campuses were lower when police officers were not stationed inside the school buildings than when they were, according to state and local data from the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years. The data backs a key criticism of school resource officers, which is that they increase…
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RTD will let Denver-area youth ride free all year — to school, to work, anywhere
Denver-area youth will be able to ride for free to school, the mall, work, and just about everywhere they go beginning Sept. 1 under a new Regional Transportation District pilot program. The free fares for youth 19 and younger riding buses and the light rail system will start following the conclusion of the RTD’s summer…
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Denver school board to vote on whether to release recording of closed-door meeting about police
The Denver school board will hold a special meeting Friday to vote on whether to release the recording of a closed-door meeting it held in March. Several news outlets, including Chalkbeat and The Denver Gazette, are suing Denver Public Schools for the recording of the meeting. DPS spokesperson Bill Good said Thursday that he didn’t…
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Denver Gazette, news outlets file lawsuit against Denver Public Schools over executive session
A media coalition that includes The Denver Gazette and Colorado Politics filed a lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, alleging the school district violated Colorado’s open meetings laws when the board held a March executive session to discuss the return of school resource officers. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Denver District Court, includes the Denver…