Ann Schimke

Ann Schimke

Senior Reporter, Chalkbeat Colorado

Ann Schimke covers early childhood issues for Chalkbeat Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Denver Post. She holds a master’s degree in education policy from the University of Michigan. She joined Chalkbeat (then EdNews Colorado) in 2012. Email: aschimke@chalkbeat.org

A growing number of Colorado counties use lodging tax proceeds to fund affordable housing and child care for the local workforce.

Both sales tax increases will take effect in 2026.

Tuesday’s progressive school board wins coincide with a blue wave that boosted Democrats nationwide.

“We have also been working since July to get the zoning corrected and are optimistic that will happen soon,” said the school’s executive director.

Officials from the Denver area school that employed the teacher said she was authorized to work in the United States.

The school’s Christian affiliation was omitted or downplayed in documents submitted to the state, a BOCES, and a Pueblo area school district.

Colorado’s first early childhood special district could be created if voters in Garfield and Pitkin, and part of Eagle County say yes.

It’s unclear how much the lawsuit has cost the district and how much fundraising appeals by the district and other groups have raised.