Author: Melanie Asmar
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.To help feed students and their families during the federal government shutdown, the foundation for Denver Public Schools has restarted a fundraising effort it began during the pandemic. Back in 2020, the Food Security Fund paid for grab-and-go meal bags prepared by district staff and handed out to families at locations across the city while schools were shuttered because of the COVID-19 outbreak.Now, the Denver Public Schools Foundation is using the fund to buy grocery…
Read in English.Los votantes elegirán a cuatro integrantes del consejo escolar de Denver el 4 de noviembre. Once candidatos se han postulado para cuatro puestos. Las Escuelas Públicas de Denver (DPS, por sus siglas en inglés) forman el distrito escolar más grande en el estado, y las elecciones se realizarán en un momento clave. DPS está enfrentando disminuciones en la cantidad de estudiantes inscritos, amenazas del gobierno de Trump y presión para aumentar los logros de sus estudiantes. El control político del consejo de siete integrantes está en juego. Integrantes del consejo respaldados por el sindicato de maestros de Denver…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero said Friday that the Trump administration is pushing “an anti-trans agenda through the weaponization of Title IX,” a federal law the administration says DPS violated when it converted a girls’ restroom to an all-gender one.“They have claimed Title IX prohibits the conversion of a girls’ restroom to an all-gender restroom,” Marrero said in a statement. “They now claim Title IX prohibits the use of any multi-stall, all-gender restroom. This…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.At Aurora’s Laredo Elementary, the tidy library is shaped like a trapezoid because it used to be the auditorium. And the cafeteria, which smelled of chicken nuggets on the first Friday of the school year, has basketball hoops hanging from the ceiling because it was once the multipurpose room. Some classrooms don’t have windows. The brightly decorated hallways are narrow. And the fifth graders learn in trailers outside, which means the 10- and 11-year-olds must…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.With the news Friday that the Trump administration plans to release all of the federal education funds that it has withheld from states since July 1, Lake County School District Superintendent Kate Bartlett said it feels like she’s emerging from a time machine.All of the scrambling and contingency planning she did for the past several weeks is over.“It’s almost like we’ve been transported back in time to June 29,” Bartlett said. That was the day…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Colorado lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that initially set out to ban seclusion in schools, which is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone.Lawmakers said seclusion is a complicated topic and that even after extensive amendments, the bill didn’t strike the right balance between educators who said seclusion is a necessary practice and parents who told vivid stories of its misuse. The sole sponsor of House Bill 1178, Democratic state Rep. Regina…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.A federal judge on Friday rejected Denver Public Schools’ attempt to reinstate a federal policy that treated schools as “sensitive locations” where immigration enforcement should only take place if there is immediate danger to the public.U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico said there is little practical difference between the prior policy, the last iteration of which was issued in 2021 under former President Biden, and a pair of memos issued by the Trump administration…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.An all-girls charter high school in Denver that prioritizes physical movement and social and emotional learning will close at the end of this school year due to declining enrollment, according to a press release from the school.Girls Athletic Leadership School, known as GALS, will close its high school this spring but keep its middle school open. GALS started as a middle school in 2010 and added high school grades in 2014. While enrollment in the…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Hundreds of Denver Public Schools students, some carrying handmade signs and others with Mexican flags draped over their shoulders, left school Wednesday and walked to the Colorado Capitol to join a massive protest against President Donald Trump.“Donald Trump, can’t you hear?” they chanted. “Immigrants are welcome here!”The protest unfolded on the same day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided several apartment buildings in Denver and Aurora. ICE’s Denver office said on social media that…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Education funding dominated the discussion at Chalkbeat Colorado’s annual Legislative Preview event Monday, as a panel of state lawmakers grappled with how Colorado will fund K-12 schools and public colleges in the face of looming budget cuts.“We are in a very, very tight budget year,” said Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican who sits on the powerful Joint Budget Committee. “We have to cut.”The 2025 legislative session starts Wednesday.State lawmakers said they must cut…