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A high school graduate in a red cap and gown is hugged in front of a sea of other graduates — A graduating student is congratulated by social studies teacher Jason Wiedmaier, right, as Aurora’s William Smith High School hands out diplomas at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver on May 17, in Denver, Colorado. The coronavirus pandemic and other social and economic events shaped all four years of high school for Colorado’s 2023 graduates. (Helen H. Richardson / The Denver Post)

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Shaped by the pandemic, racial unrest, and debt fears, Colorado’s class of 2023 steps into the world

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| May 24, 2023, 4:00pm UTC