Melanie Asmar

Melanie Asmar

Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat Colorado

Melanie Asmar covers Denver Public Schools. Write her at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

Educators were added to the list of people who can request someone’s guns be temporarily confiscated. But very few have so far.

The police department is temporarily assigning other officers to cover the schools until it can hire new full-time SROs.

Four of the seven board seats are up for grabs in the Nov. 4 election.

The shooting left two students injured and the suspected shooter dead.

Declining enrollment has slowed charter growth in Denver. But Aurora Public Schools needs more schools in the growing eastern part of the district.

Rather than agree to get rid of its all-gender restrooms, DPS has asked the Trump administration for 90 days to negotiate a resolution.

Four seats on the seven-member board are up for election Nov. 4.

However, more school districts have landed on the state accountability clock, a watchlist that ticks toward intervention.