Colorado
One bill revives part of a proposal vetoed last year. The other is in response to the Evergreen High School shooting.
One planning commissioner said he worried the school’s original industrial location could result in a child “ending up underneath a cement truck.”
Shana Engel tells her students that “wrong answers are still great answers, because through fixing our mistakes, we develop a greater understanding."
It’s unclear where Riverstone is located now since its building was shut down in late January.
Colorado lawmakers want to help prospective teachers who have run into legal trouble. A bill under consideration would only require licensure applicants to disclose misdemeanors that happened within the last seven years.
Students Demand Action’s Colorado chapter rallied at the Capitol to support legislation that would make it harder to create illegal guns. The group ramped up its presence at the Capitol after the 2023 East High School shooting.
Cost concerns and competing priorities hindered a planned expansion that would have opened the school to more students without auditions.
The proposal would bar school police officers from ticketing or arresting students if doing so would put them at risk of deportation.
The Trump administration cut grant funding for Minority-Serving Institutions nationwide. Colorado lawmakers want to help many of those schools attract more students by creating a new designation.
Colorado passed a seal of biliteracy endorsement in 2017. Sponsors of a new bill that gained approval in the House Education Committee would create a new endorsement so students can prove their bilingualism.
It’s not clear if Riverstone is still providing instruction to students.
Democratic backers of the proposal, which the Senate needs to approve on a final reading, say it would help ease the process for educators seeking extreme-risk protection orders.
More than 1,000 Denver teachers called out of work Friday, with some joining students to march around the Colorado Capitol on a day of nationwide protests.
Although a group of lawmakers say they’re committed to keeping funding promises, district officials worry that the state’s $850 million budget shortfall will force a shift.
How do enrollment trends in Colorado compare with the rest of the nation? Data released this month provide some context.
Aurora Public Schools and the Commerce City-based Adams 14 district both serve large populations of immigrant students.
Colorado Democratic lawmakers hope to file two bills this year that increase the state’s ability to monitor and enforce civil rights and disability accommodations violations.
“Let’s start with a clean slate, free of perception of impropriety and the shadow of conflict of interest,” said one board member.
The family of Luis Garcia, a 16-year-old student who was shot and killed outside East, agreed to drop its appeal of a wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, court documents show.
Superintendent Alex Marrero had originally recommended that the board vote no.