08 Mar Denver Education & News
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- Fort Lewis College’s president stepping down to lead Occidental College in Los AngelesThe president of Fort Lewis College in Durango is stepping down to take a new job leading Occidental College, a four-year liberal arts college in Los Angeles. Tom Stritikus has served as Fort Lewis College’s president for six years, guiding the school through the pandemic and an effort to recognize ... read more
- Schools don’t need a warrant to search students on safety plans for weapons, Colorado Supreme Court rulesThe Colorado Supreme Court on Monday broadly affirmed that school safety plans give officials the right to search students on campus without a warrant, finding that staff at a Denver high school acted lawfully when they searched a 10th grader who brought a loaded gun to school on his third ... read more
- English development teachers in Colorado feel overwhelmed amid influx of students new to the countryThis school year has been overwhelming for teachers like Joel Mollman. As an English language development teacher at Hamilton Middle School in Denver, Mollman has had to take on more work to keep up with the growing number of students who need help learning English. In previous years, for example, ... read more
- University of Colorado to consider banning concealed carry on all campusesThe University of Colorado in April will discuss for the first time since 2012 imposing a ban on people carrying concealed weapons on its campuses. CU allows concealed carry on its campuses, making it an outlier among higher education institutions nationwide. Concealed carry was banned on the CU campuses for ... read more
- Have experience with out-of-school suspensions? The Denver Post wants to talk to youThe Denver Post is looking into how school discipline has changed since the coronavirus pandemic and wants to talk to students, parents, educators and others in Colorado about their experiences with out-of-school suspensions. Schools have faced widespread staffing shortages since the return to in-person learning. Children have struggled with the ... read more
- Unsupervised child in wheelchair broke both legs at Westminster school after sliding down ramp, lawsuit allegesThe mother of this Adams County child with disabilities is suing his school district after her son allegedly broke both of his legs at school when he was unsupervised and his wheelchair slipped down a ramp. (Photo provided by Igor Raykin) An Adams County mother filed a federal lawsuit Monday ... read more
- Cherry Creek administrators failed to protect student after sexual assault by football player, lawsuit allegesA former student is suing the Cherry Creek School District alleging administrators violated her right to an education by failing to investigate and protect her from a hostile environment at school after she reported being sexually assaulted by a football player. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court ... read more
- No Denver kids made this year’s Colorado State Spelling Bee. “Bill’s kids” want to fix that in honor of their late coach.A dormant dynasty is preparing to rise again. This year, not a single Denver Public Schools student qualified for the Colorado State Spelling Bee. Fourteen wordy kids from across the state gathered to compete at the bee, sponsored by The Denver Post, last weekend. Aditi Muthukumar, an eighth grader from ... read more
- Denver metro area school delays, closures for March 15, 2024As a major snowstorm buries the Front Range, several school districts have already announced closures or delays for Friday, March 15 due to extreme snow. School closures and government office closures will be updated throughout the day. MORE WEATHER NEWS: Click here for the latest updates on weather, traffic, road ... read more
- CU Boulder investigation finds law school dean retaliated against professorAn investigation conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder found that a dean of the campus’s law school violated university policy by retaliating against a professor who reported discrimination. Paul Campos, a law professor at CU Boulder, filed a complaint with the university in 2022 reporting he faced discrimination and ... read more
- Equal education, unequal pay: Why is there still a gender pay gap in 2024?By CLAIRE SAVAGE (Associated Press) CHICAGO — Not even education can close the pay gap that persists between women and men, according to a recent U.S. Census report. Whether women earn a post-secondary certificate or graduate from a top-tier university, they still make about 71 cents on the dollar ... read more
- Why you should stop texting your kids at schoolVirginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in his economics and government classes: — “What did you get on your test?” — “Did you get the field trip form signed?” — “Do you want chicken or hamburgers for dinner tonight?” ... read more
- Judge orders Auon’tai Anderson to pay $60K in legal fees to BLM 5280, leader he sued for defamationA judge last week ordered former Denver school board vice president Auon’tai Anderson to pay $61,060 to cover the legal fees of Black Lives Matter 5280 and Amy Brown, two former defendants in a defamation suit he filed in 2021 after being accused of sexual assault. An investigation initiated ... read more
- After Marshall fire, wealthy households made more on GoFundMe than low-income families, CU research showsGoFundMe campaigns helped wealthy households significantly more than low-income households in the aftermath of the Marshall Fire, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder. Researchers found people with higher income received more in GoFundMe donations overall, more in average donations and more donations from a wider geographic ... read more
- Their old neighborhood is now part of Denver’s Auraria Campus. They want a greater say in its future.Activists in their 70s filed into a conference room on Denver’s Auraria Campus one morning last week, standing on land that used to be their sprawling, largely Latino neighborhood before the city razed it in the 1970s to build the downtown higher education complex. As they have for decades, the ... read more
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