Monday’s lawsuit is the second one this month that targets protections for transgender students.
Youngquist said he is supportive of the decision to launch an investigation and is “confident that my name will be cleared.”
Marrero calls the strategy the School Transformation Process, and said it’s meant to avoid state intervention in persistently low-rated schools.
The State Board of Education’s vote means about 800 students will have to find a new school next year.
Ten schools are set to close or partially close next month due to declining enrollment. The proposal would have halted any further school closures until 2029.
Monday’s lawsuit is the second one this month that targets protections for transgender students.
Youngquist said he is supportive of the decision to launch an investigation and is “confident that my name will be cleared.”
La implementación del programa Summer EBT es una de varias medidas que Colorado ha tomado en los últimos años para reducir la cantidad de niños que pasan hambre.
Marrero calls the strategy the School Transformation Process, and said it’s meant to avoid state intervention in persistently low-rated schools.
Ten schools are set to close or partially close next month due to declining enrollment. The proposal would have halted any further school closures until 2029.
The State Board of Education’s vote means about 800 students will have to find a new school next year.
District 49 filed the lawsuit a day after passing a policy barring transgender youth from school sports teams that match their gender identity.
The new policy passed in a 3-2 vote.
Colorado lawmakers set aside more funding for schools starting in 2026. They also passed bills related to mental health, Black history, and free school meals.
One of Trump's recent executive orders called for federal agencies to target in-state college tuition programs for undocumented students. For now, Colorado’s program is expected to remain.
Last summer, some families didn’t receive the summer grocery money until school started. This year is different.
El presidente Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que incluía la orden de que las agencias federales sancionaran a los estados que aplican la matrícula estatal a estudiantes indocumentados. Veinticuatro estados cuentan con leyes similares.
Colorado lawmakers have taken a markedly different approach to transgender student rights than the Trump administration.
Colorado stands to lose about $8 million in federal grant money and nearly 300 AmeriCorps members, many of whom work in schools or with youth.
“We've now created a situation where an adult is having a conversation with a minor concerning that minor's genitalia,” said one father who opposes the policy on transgender athletes.
The union blasted DPS for declaring an impasse during Teacher Appreciation Week.
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Colorado, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey have in-state tuition programs for undocumented students. Now, the Trump administration plans to take action against those programs.
Eighteen titles, including ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Kite Runner,’ were returned to library shelves this week.
Las clínicas de derecho ofrecen a los estudiantes una manera de adquirir experiencia con casos y clientes antes de graduarse. Y la administración Trump ha hecho que las clínicas de derecho para inmigrantes de las facultades sean más cruciales que nunca.
Board members also changed Marrero’s contract to eliminate performance bonuses, which the teachers union has criticized.
Colorado ranks third in the nation, after Washington, D.C. and Vermont, for the share of 4-year-olds served in its state-funded preschool program.
The Trump administration has sought to exert greater federal control over higher education. Researchers visiting Denver rallied at the Capitol against the president’s actions.
Colorado university law clinics offer students a way to get experience with cases and clients before graduating. And the Trump administration has made the schools’ immigrant law clinics more crucial than ever.
Four seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for election in November.
Lawmakers needed to balance a $1.2 billion budget hole. They were still able to secure increases for K-12 and higher education budgets.
After weeks of uncertainty, lawmakers approve $2.9 million for the program as part of the “long bill.”
Half of the displaced students will go to higher-performing schools, and a significant number are moving from district-run schools to charter schools.
Higher education leaders said late last year they would need $95 million more annually. They'll get far less than requested.
Colorado Senate lawmakers approved a resolution this week promising to figure out how to boost education funding.
Ten Denver schools with low enrollment will close or partially close at the end of this school year.
Seclusion is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone. Parents say it is misused and traumatic, while educators describe it as a necessary last resort.
A panel of experts said the state hasn’t felt any major impacts from Trump cuts yet, except for students with disabilities. They worry there will be education challenges in the future.
Currently, about a dozen Colorado districts conduct universal dyslexia screenings in some grades.
Colorado lawmakers have sought to create more opportunities to help students get college experience at an earlier age. Now, Denver Public Schools’ Emily Griffith Technical College can issue its own associate degree.
Four of the seven board seats are up for election in November.
The Colorado Youth Advisory Council is made up of 40 students between the ages of 14 and 19 and has helped create laws. But lawmakers will end the council’s ability to draft bills.