Education

Members of Students Demand Action say there’s still a lot that needs to be done to make East High students feel safe as they return to class this week.

“The board’s inability to identify and address the challenges our children face is glaringly evident.”

“As a city, we must lift and celebrate our young people, acknowledging their strengths and demonstrating our belief that opportunity opens unlimited possibilities.”

The longtime girls basketball coach at Thomas Jefferson High School left an unbeatable legacy.

Families of Black and brown students in Denver are wary of changes proposed by the city’s new safety plan and worry they are catered to “white parents.”

Ja’Brel Dorsett says youth leaders with the SCD Enrichment program helped save his life after he became homeless in high school. Now, he works with them.

Glenwood Springs parents will be out in force at the Roaring Fork School District’s board meeting on April 12 to call out educators.

Vice President Auon’tai Anderson, who was 21 when he was elected in 2019, may face challengers.

A longtime educator warns that the Denver Board of Education and superintendent have lost sight of what’s most important: the needs of students.

East High students return to school today. What will they find?

Speaking at a roundtable community discussion on March 30, city leaders and community members admitted that the added safety measures just won’t be enough.

The 27th annual event had been scheduled for May 24…two days after the shooting at East High School.

Questions linger as to the specific motives behind the decision to reintroduce SROs for at least the remainder of the school year.

The recent news isn’t the whole story about this landmark Denver school.

DPS students will have to walk the halls with some of the same SROs who didn’t do the job right three years ago.

The move comes less than three years after the Denver School Board voted unanimously to remove SROs.

Student activists from East High School are finally getting local officials to listen to them about gun violence and school safety solutions.

Senate Bill 23-070 was introduced on January 27 and changes the current policy of simply “encouraging” school resource officers to undergo training.

Bright Rides is a bright idea.

Samahra and Samahra(Rise) float ideas of multicultural identity to help parents help their kids.

Names are funny things.

Tenants have described various problems at the facility, which submitted a plan to get out of bankruptcy less than an hour before the property was set to be auctioned off in a foreclosure sale.