Board members said Academy 360 deserves a chance to boost student test scores, especially considering that the school provides mental health support to students and families that one board member called essential.

Only the three new board members set to be sworn in later this month will be eligible for the higher pay. Sitting board members can’t vote to raise their own pay.

“Are we sure this is going to make things better?” one board member asked.

Denver Public Schools is faulting Colleen O’Brien, head of the Northeast Denver Innovation Zone, for oversight at McAuliffe International School.

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The election has reduced the teachers union’s control over the board, which has struggled to address school safety and get along.

Two Colorado communities get opposite results from push to increase lodging taxes for child care.

While some local school leaders have instituted new strategies to help students learning English, other districts aren’t especially concerned.

Two of five seats on the Jeffco school board were up for grabs. The outcome reinforces the current board majority.

The election of John Youngquist, Kimberlee Sia, and Marlene De La Rosa is likely to shake up the interpersonal and political dynamics on the board.

Three of seven seats on the board were up for grabs.

It’s the district’s first contested school board election in six years.

Education groups had campaigned for Proposition HH, but voters were far less keen on the complicated property tax measure.

The ballot measure will send about $23 million more to the state’s new universal preschool program.

It’s not a record yet — but it’s close.