Colorado Schools

School Trans Fat Ban Passes In Colo. Senate

Posted 04.11.2012

The leanest state in the nation is taking big strides to retain that unique distinction -- the Colorado Senate passed a bill that would ban trans fats...

Another $133 Million Available For Race To The Top Early Learning Grants

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has announced that five states that were finalists in an earlier competition for millions in federal dollars to...

Child Poverty May Be Slowing, Report Finds

Posted 03.29.2012

The dramatic rate at which Colorado youth have been slipping into poverty seems to have finally come to a standstill this year, according to data rele...

Cancer-Causing Gas Abundant In 70,000 U.S. Schools: Why You'd Never Know

Posted 03.01.2012

A toxic, cancer-causing gas is threatening the health of students in thousands of classrooms across the country, but many districts aren't doing anyth...

Private Education Consultants Reap Benefits Of Federal Grant Money Meant For Failing Schools

The Denver Post | Jennifer Brown | Posted 04.22.2012

They are among the 5,000 worst schools in America, where the percentage of kids who can read or do math at grade level often hovers in the teens or 20...

Nation's Leanest State Considers Trans-Fat Ban In Schools

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 04.03.2012

By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER -- The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation'...

Lobato Case: Colo. Attorney General Appeals Judge's Funding Decision

Posted 01.24.2012

On Monday, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers filed an appeal of Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport's landmark ruling on school funding in the...

Officials Reject New High School Mascot For 'Derogatory' Female Reference

Posted 03.21.2012

The students spoke, and the school board vetoed: One high school opening in Utah won't be calling themselves the "Cougars." Students across the Can...

State 'Irrationally' Underfunds Schools By Billions, Judge Rules

Posted 02.11.2012

Supporters of an education lawsuit against the state of Colorado celebrated this weekend after a district judge ruled that the state severely underfun...

Facing Budget Crisis, Schools Sell Ads On Report Cards, Buses

Posted 01.16.2012

Facing shortfalls of millions of dollars, school districts across the country have sought ways to make cuts on nearly everything -- from halting plann...

School Breakfast Economics Add Up

Ed News Colorado | Rebecca Jones | Posted 01.10.2012

Members of the Adams City High School Student Council earned $200 to help defray Homecoming expenses last fall, and they did it during school hours wi...

WATCH: New Film By Gay Students Explores Trials Of LGBT Youth

Posted 01.08.2012

By students, a new documentary takes an in-depth look at the trials of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers in Colorado -- and their path ...

Finance Reports Shed Light On Denver School Board Race

The Denver Post | Yesenia Robles | Posted 12.18.2011

Finance reports filed Monday by committees involved in the Nov. 1 election show that the Denver teachers union has spent $88,500 on two Denver school-...

Half Of Colorado Online Students Leave, Funding Stays

EdNews Colorado | Burt Hubbard and Nancy Mitchell | Posted 12.03.2011

Colorado taxpayers will spend $100 million this year on online schools that are largely failing their elementary and high school students, state educa...

State Senator Seeks Online School Audit, Cites Poor Grades, Structure

Posted 11.27.2011

Colorado Democratic Senate President Brandon Shaffer is seeking an emergency audit of online K-12 schools. In a letter to lawmakers Monday, Shaffer...

4 of 7 Public School Board Members Spent Beyond Budgets

Education News Colorado | Charlie Brennan | Posted 10.31.2011

An Education News Colorado analysis of spending by Denver school board members shows that four of the seven blew their annual $5,000 budgets for the f...

Colorado School Vouchers Blocked, Were A 'Substantial Disservice,' Judge Says

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.13.2011

DENVER -- A Denver judge blocked Colorado's first school voucher program Friday, calling the program to give parents in the state's wealthiest county ...

Colorado Takes To Computer Testing To Prevent Cheating

The Denver Post | Yesenia Robles | Posted 10.10.2011

Systems in Colorado designed to maintain the integrity of standardized academic tests don't use as many checks for cheating as some in other states. ...

Assault Charge For Throwing A Bean Bag Chair In School? One State Is Reconsidering

AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 09.27.2011

DENVER -- Young students in Colorado schools can face ticketing or charges for scrawling doodles on a desk, accidentally hitting a teacher with a bean...

1 Woman, Children Hurt In Denver School Bus Crash

AP | Posted 09.08.2011

DENVER — Authorities say several high school students and a woman were hurt in a traffic accident involving a Denver Public Schools bus and a ca...

Elementary School Opts For No Grades, No Grade Levels

Posted 07.03.2011

At a Denver area elementary school, students are organized into classes in an unconventional manner -- they are arranged by what they know, not their ...

Colorado Lunchrooms Failing Inspection Mandate

EdNewsColorado | Rebecca Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Federal regulations require school lunchrooms be inspected at least twice a year by local health authorities but more than half of all Colorado school...

Colorado Friendly To Charter Schools

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | EMILY ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Colorado charter school laws are the seventh best in the nation, according to The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based charter school...

Unachievable Dreams?

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan Gottlieb

Teaching has to become a profession that is seen as a viable career choice for capable, driven young people. Not only must it pay more, but the working conditions have to be attractive to the self-motivated and creative.

135,000 Colorado Public School Students Unlikely To Reach Profieciency: CSAP Results

The Denver Post | Burt Hubbard and Jeremy P. Meyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Between 74,000 and 135,000 public school students in Colorado are not on pace to become proficient in reading, writing and math over the next three ye...