17 Jun Denver Education & News
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- Audio captured Douglas County school board members give ultimatum to former superintendent: “We don’t want to make this super public”
The president and vice president of Douglas County’s school board told former superintendent Corey Wise that if he did not resign within a matter of days, the board’s newly-elected members would fire him for cause, according to an audio recording of the Jan. 28 meeting. The audio was filed in ... read more - Colorado women continue to face harassment, discrimination in schools despite five decades of equality under Title IXThe sexually infused environment in Meghan Smith’s master’s program at Colorado State University was evident almost as soon as she enrolled in 2018. Her mentoring professor hosted an annual Christmas party for his lab with a “white elephant” gift exchange — to which he brought sex toys as his gifts. ... read more
- “We need more Black teachers in Colorado”: Effort to diversify educators includes $10,000 stipendWhen Kyra Solomon, who just finished her first year of teaching, moved to Colorado, she noticed there weren’t many Black teachers. “One thing I’ve kind of been missing since I’ve been to Denver is not seeing a lot of educators that look like me,” Solomon, who teaches Spanish immersion at ... read more
- Metro State is raising $1 million for a new brewing lab named after a Colorado beer legendIf you’ve lived in Colorado for any length of time, you’ve probably met someone who works for a craft brewery. There are more than 400 of them, after all, employing 15,000 people and pumping $2 billion in economic benefits into the state, according to a 2020 study. Providing that industry ... read more
- Jeffco school district planning multiple elementary school closuresThe Jefferson County school district is preparing to make recommendations this fall to close multiple elementary schools, kicking off its long-term plan to downsize its number of schools. Jeffco district leaders say 49, or 58% of district elementary schools, currently have fewer than 250 students, and/or use less than 60% ... read more
- A newly drawn district in Colorado is being closely watched nationally. And things are heating up on the Republican side.The political balance in Congress come November could well pivot on how voters cast their ballots in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District — the state’s first new U.S. House district in 20 years. The district, which stretches from Commerce City in the south to Greeley in the north, is considered one ... read more
- Denver school board appoints new member to vacant seat after heated debateAfter a heated debate, Denver’s Board of Education voted Thursday to appoint Charmaine Lindsay, a family law attorney, to a vacant seat on the board. The vote followed multiple rounds of voting as board members struggled to agree on who should replace director Brad Laurvick, a pastor, who resigned from ... read more
- CSU president Joyce McConnell to leave post at end of the monthColorado State University president Joyce McConnell will leave her post at the end of the month, CSU’s governing board announced Thursday morning, and she’ll receive a $1.5 million separation payment. McConnell and members of the governing board “have decided to part ways” and she will leave June 30 — after ... read more
- Lawmakers say Colorado education board is “boldly thwarting” law requiring teaching of minority experiencesA group of Colorado lawmakers reminded the state Board of Education on Wednesday that legislators passed a law in 2019 to have K-12 public schools teach students about the experiences of people of color and those in the LGBTQ community in history and civics classes. And, they said, the recent ... read more
- Fairplay high school will be the first in Colorado to install one-button threat alert system for active shootersOne Fairplay high school will the state’s first to install a one-button threat alert system in the event of an active shooter. South Park High School at 640 Hathaway St. is set to utilize the ASR Threat Alert System after ASR Alert Systems, a Florida company that provides critical incident ... read more
- Hispanic students make gains in high school graduation amid changes in approachWhen Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late ’90s in a small town in southern Colorado, graduation was not in her sights. “My parents were very concerned about just working and trying to put food on the table. I don’t think I ever had that support from ... read more
- Authorities weigh danger posed by teen charged in Boulder school shooting threatThe 14-year-old boy accused of threatening a shooting at Casey Middle School in Boulder will stay in custody at least until next week while authorities evaluate how much of a threat he poses to others, a Boulder County judge ruled Tuesday. The teenager had threatened to “shoot and bomb” his ... read more
- Baja 1000 EV dreams drive Colorado student engineers building racer in Aurora alley garageAURORA — Colorado School of Mines engineering students are hurling themselves into what they see as the ultimate, relevant senior project: creating an electric vehicle burly enough to endure the Baja 1000 off-road race through unforgiving Mexican desert. They want to accelerate a U.S. shift away from fossil fuels as ... read more
- Colorado leaders celebrate “transformational” education funding
- Polis signs law to protect teachers, school workers from doxxingColorado teachers now can withhold their personal information from the internet if they feel it would put them or their family at risk. Gov. Jared Polis signed the provision, SB22-171, into law Thursday, adding educators to the growing list of professions lawmakers want to protect from doxxing. Doxxing is when ... read more
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