Tag: Education
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Denver voter guide 2025: Key races and ballot questions across the metro area
Colorado voters will go to the polls on Nov. 4, when they will decide the fate of several issues, including two statewide measures and several local questions. Voters will also pick the leaders of several offices, notably several education officials in metro Denver. Additionally, candidates are vying for several council seats. A key date is…
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5 takeaways from CU Boulder engineers’ study to help tech developers create AI tools people actually want to use
A study published in the journal AI and Ethics from University of Colorado Boulder professor Amir Behzadan in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and his Ph.D. student Armita Dabiri, studied how artificial intelligence (AI) technology can earn public confidence. The two created a framework for developing AI tools that people actually want…
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YMHC impact at Ortega Middle School
For 12-year-old students navigating middle school in rural Colorado, challenges extend far beyond homework and social dynamics. Many face unstable housing, language barriers, and limited access to mental health resources. For them, the Youth Mental Health Corps (YMHC) can be a lifeline. Berkeley Wall, a second-year YMHC member at Ortega Middle School in Alamosa, has…
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Financial challenges mount for 16 Colorado school districts, audit reveals
Sixteen school districts in Colorado, almost all of them rural, are showing signs of financial stress, according to an audit released on the fiscal health of the state’s 178 public school districts. Eighteen other districts, however, are moving off the list with improvements to their fiscal health in the 2023-24 fiscal year. The Ellicott School…
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Arvada high school students meet with AG about school safety
Attorney General Phil Weiser sat down with a group of Arvada West High School students Tuesday afternoon to discuss mental health and gun safety in the wake of the Evergreen High School shooting that shocked the Jeffco Public Schools community last month. Weiser and seven student leaders sat in the Arvada high school’s auditorium, surrounded…
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A ‘profound initiative’: UNC will open Colorado’s third medical school
By HAP FRY Special to The Gazette GREELEY – A trip to Carter Hall on an early fall Friday morning to visit the offices of Dr. Andrew “Andy” Feinstein can reveal that the University of Northern Colorado president has the wherewithal to reconfigure space in the most unlikely places. Take an upstairs attic in Carter…
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Accusations of racism ripple through Denver school leadership
“Racist” has become a go-to accusation by Denver Public Schools leaders and those who attend board meetings. A White woman asking a Black heckler to stop? “Racist.” A White board member proposing guardrails on the board of education hiring outside counsel when the district has in-house Black counsel? “Racist.” Another White board member accused of…
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Colorado voters to decide fate of additional funding for school meals program, SNAP
Two statewide ballot measures are up for voter approval early next month, the aim of which is to raise additional funds for free school meals program and help pay for the federal food stamp program. Both Propositions LL and MM are tied to the Healthy School Meals for All program, which voters approved in 2022.…
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Budget cuts threaten Youth Mental Health Corps for rural students
In rural Colorado, a single school counselor can face impossible odds. With limited staff, students in crisis are at high risk of slipping through the cracks, and having their emotional, social, and academic needs unmet. At Moffat Schools in the San Luis Valley, school counselor Sarah DeLeon knows those challenges firsthand. “School counselors can be…
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Budget cuts threaten Youth Mental Health Corps for rural students
In rural Colorado, a single school counselor can face impossible odds. With limited staff, students in crisis are at high risk of slipping through the cracks, and having their emotional, social, and academic needs unmet. At Moffat Schools in the San Luis Valley, school counselor Sarah DeLeon knows those challenges firsthand. “School counselors can be…