The new superintendent of the Jefferson County school district has hit the ground running. Only ten days into the job, Dr. Jason Glass is on the road today, July 10th for an eight-stop “listening tour” around Jeffco that is intended to allow teachers, parents and residents to speak up about what the school district needs to do next.
Approximately 3,200 school counselors from across the country and the globe are expected to descend on Denver for the annual conference of the Virginia-based American School Counselor Association, which gets underway on Saturday, July 8. And while ASCA assistant director Eric Sparks expects the event to be a lot of fun, plenty of serious topics will be discussed, and that’s appropriate. Sparks enumerates ten of the biggest challenges facing school counselors in 2017, and his run-down collectively illustrates how these educators are on the front lines of major societal changes whose impacts will be felt on young people for many years to come.
On Wednesday, June 28, parents at Educare Denver at Clayton Early Learning were informed that come August 18, their children would no longer be able to attend the school, leaving some thirty families scrambling to find childcare in six weeks.
Contract negotiations stalled last week between Denver Public Schools (DPS) and the Denver Classroom Teacher’s Association (DCTA), a major union that represents almost 6,000 Denver educators, when DPS announced that it will ask a federal third-party mediator to take over the bargaining process.
The Fifth Annual Colorado REACH (Respecting Ethnic and Cultural Heritage) Conference opens today, June 22, at the University of Denver. For the past five years, the conference has offered training and insight on multicultural education and provided participants with tools for teaching in diverse classrooms. Michelle Campbell, chair of the conference,…
Editor’s note: The author is a junior at the University of Colorado Boulder and the multimedia managing editor at the CU Independent. The names of the subjects in this story have been changed to protect their identities. Loose, blood-red vomit poured from Demetri’s mouth, his half-digested noodles swimming down the…
The Colorado faction of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation announced on Tuesday, June 7, that it will spend $200,000 on a school choice “Issue Education Effort” in June and July.
A Boulder-based program that brings performances of Shakespeare plays into Colorado schools as part of an anti-bullying program has received a $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest.
The fifth-graders in Michael Diaz-Rivera’s classroom are anxious for summer. The boys in the front fidget under rows of fluorescent lights, and a few students have their heads on their desks. But everyone perks up when the 31-year-old teacher clears his throat and begins class. “As you can see, today…
Roosevelt High School in Johnstown will be open for classes today, May 9, following yesterday’s closure. In an announcement from the Weld RE-5J School District, Dr. Martin Foster, the district’s superintendent, writes that local police say a possible threat over a Roosevelt Spanish teacher’s use of a President Donald Trump piñata has been discredited. Apparently, the whole thing was fueled by rumor.
Denver Public Schools has sent a letter to parents about 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series about a high school student who leaves behind audio recordings that explain her reasons for committing suicide. The district’s decision was based in part on a subject of the show’s final tape, a school counselor who essentially brushes off the student’s revelation that she’s been raped. Shortly thereafter, the student takes her own life.
On Saturday, April 29, former professor Ward Churchill will return to the University of Colorado Boulder, the institution that fired him ten years earlier in what the author of a report that blasted CU’s actions calls “the most notorious academic freedom controversy in a generation.”
When Nita Mosby Tyler, a Denver-based consultant, was invited to give a talk on diversity and inclusion at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, she knew that she had a skeptical audience on her hands. The white, largely conservative crowd appeared uncomfortable as she went before it to discuss racial…
Colorado’s schools might be some of the most underfunded in the country — but last week, Denver Public Schools was one of eight districts in the nation to be recognized by the National Council on Teaching Quality as a Great District for Great Teachers.
Last night, March 13, the Cherry Creek School District voted unanimously to move start times later for middle- and high-school students and earlier for children in elementary schools. The change has broad but not universal support from older students and their folks. However, a group of elementary-school parents were unhappy enough with them to have started a change.org petition that rejected alterations for their kids with extreme prejudice.
A group of students at the University of Denver’s law school has started a petition requesting that DU reconsider its contract with Sodexo, a global supplier of food services that operates in many universities. DU is in the process of renegotiating its contract with the France-based company, which counts nearly 400,000…
How serious is dating violence for high-school students? According to the Denver-based National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, nearly 1.5 million high-school students in the United States are physically abused by dating partners every year. It isn’t too surprising, then, that 57 percent of teenagers report knowing somebody who has been…
Donald Trump certainly didn’t invent racism. But since Trump’s election this past November, verbally racist attacks hurled at Denver kids of color are on the rise, sources tell Westword. Even before this week’s release of executive orders calling for tougher immigration enforcement, local children of Latino or African descent riding on buses, gathering in public spaces or even playing against white opponents in school-sanctioned sporting events were hearing hateful comments about deportation and more whether they’re U.S. citizens or not. Such remarks, from young and old alike, may have been whispered in the past, but now, they’re increasingly being announced loud and proud, as if the speakers feel empowered by the assumption that the nation’s president feels the same way they do.
In the period leading up to Valentine’s Day, the Internet spits out list after list about the most romantic places across the country. But “Is Virginia for Lovers? Geographic Variation in Adult Attachment Orientation” stands out from the pack.
In a dimly lit theater at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton, 75 girls in elementary through high school are chit-chatting, placing their food orders with theater waiters, and patiently awaiting the start of the film. Directed by Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures tells the true but seldom-heard story of three African-American…
Police at the University of Colorado Boulder continue to look into reports about an e-mail sent to ticket holders for a Wednesday night address by alt-right shit-stirrer Milo Yiannopoulos threatening that “the identifies of attendees will be released to the public on a list of known Neo-Nazi sympathizers.” But while the inquiry is ongoing, investigators have already concluded that the e-mail wasn’t sent out as a result of an online hack. Rather, they believe that the culprit was one of the attendees.
Previous sexual assault allegations against newly hired Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph were originally revealed thanks to the investigation into a recruiting scandal at the University of Colorado, where Joseph had played and served as an assistant coach.
