grading schools

Raising the bar or moving the goalposts? Changes pending for Colorado school rating system
Colorado

13 hours ago

high stakes

Colorado

2 days ago

Aurora Central High School faces deadline to show improvement plan has worked

prepared

Colorado

2 days ago

Back-to-school supplies in some Colorado schools include kitty litter and buckets for lockdowns

First Person

Colorado

2 days ago

Complicated language excludes parents from the IEP process. It doesn’t have to be this way.

election 2019

Colorado

August 16, 2019

Stand for Children endorses three candidates for Denver school board

Colorado General Assembly 2019

Redistribution

Colorado

June 26, 2019

Colorado lawmakers are trying again to unravel a complicated school finance knot

If the bipartisan Legislative Interim Committee on School Finance is successful, it could change how Colorado distributes money to its schools.

it's official

Colorado

May 21, 2019

Polis signs full-day kindergarten bill into law

Fulfilling a key campaign promise, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill funding full-day kindergarten to much pomp at a ceremony at Stedman Elementary in Denver.

Analysis

Colorado

May 5, 2019

Colorado lawmakers made big investments in public education — but few major policy changes

A largely bipartisan consensus on education policy developed over the last decade remains intact at the end of the 2019 Colorado General Assembly.

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Growth

Colorado

Updated August 16, 2019

Facing big test score gaps, Denver praises schools where students of color making progress

“We have a lot of work to do in closing gaps,” Superintendent Susana Cordova said.

Data dive

Colorado

August 15, 2019

Find your 2019 Colorado CMAS scores — and compare schools

Use our searchable database to look up statewide and school-by-school results for both math and English language tests given to Colorado students last spring.

State results

Colorado

August 15, 2019

Most Colorado students not proficient in reading and math — but there’s some good news

Colorado test results released Thursday paint a student performance picture that is substantially similar to past years, but there are promising signs in literacy.

College Readiness

Colorado

August 15, 2019

SAT scores are slightly down in Colorado. Find your school’s 2019 results

More than half of Colorado’s high schools recorded lower SAT scores last spring when compared with the past year, according to data released Thursday.

Early Childhood

More seats

Colorado

August 7, 2019

This California startup thinks it can help stem Colorado’s child care shortage

A California-based company recently expanded to Colorado with the goal of minting new home-based child care providers in the Denver area.

inclusive education

Colorado

July 30, 2019

This Colorado preschool’s new gym could be a model for serving students with special needs

Bal Swan Children's Center's new gym is on the cusp of a growing trend for more inclusive physical education.

lever for change

Colorado

July 3, 2019

Colorado built a system to measure child care quality. Now, it wants more providers to climb the ratings ladder.

Four years after Colorado launched a rating system for child care and preschool programs, a quarter of providers are considered high-quality.

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Empowerment Zones

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18 hours ago

This turnaround model is spreading. Is it a better way to help struggling schools or just a new brand of takeover?

A school turnaround strategy that's shown promise in Springfield, Mass. is spreading to districts across the country with the help of a group called Empower Schools.

Leadership & Management

Detroit

17 hours ago

Q&A with Detroit schools chief Vitti: ‘Some doors … are opening up to what DPSCD can do.’

Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, in a wide-ranging interview with Chalkbeat Detroit, talked about facilities, curriculum, and his dream job.

survey says

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1 day ago

3 out of 4 Americans support giving teachers a raise, the highest in a decade

Nearly three in four Americans think teachers should be paid more, the poll shows.