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School sharing possible in DPS

For principals in Denver Public Schools, the message is clear: Fill up your school or you may soon be sharing your building with another school.

2.7% raise for Jeffco teachers

Jefferson County teachers will get 2.7 percent cost-of-living increases effective Sept. 1 under a tentative contract with the school district.

Immigrant teen gets scholarship

Meron Fitsum has a habit of coming right to the point.

Students like Guv's college aid idea

On Thursday afternoons, Room 255 in the West classroom building on the Auraria campus is filled with students who want to become K-12 teachers. Seventy percent can't afford the tuition and expenses.

Mystery donor to fund academy teaching English

A mystery donor will fund an academy for young English language learners this summer in Denver Public Schools.

CSAP may be on its way out

Colorado's $22 million testing program appears headed for replacement after more than a dozen years and scant evidence of improvement in recent results.

Metro State cancels two classes after threat received

Two classes on the Auraria Campus have been canceled for the rest of the semester after a threatening letter was received, campus police said in a news release on Thursday.

Third-grade CSAPs stagnant

Seven out of 10 Colorado third-graders are reading at grade level. See the searchable results.

Rock climber scaling academic peaks

If he can tear himself away from the rocks he loves to climb, a University of Colorado physics major is headed to Cambridge, England, next fall.

Bear Creek students returning after school fire

Students will return to Bear Creek High School Tuesday, a week after a fire gutted a gym and caused widespread smoke damage.

Ed reform debate seesaws between ACT, new standard

What constitutes a rigorous course of study? How will students be tested? Those two fundamental questions are at the heart of the current legislative debate over education reform. The answers could shape the state's public schools for years to come.

Colorado colleges in a hole

More than $126 million in cuts this decade have put Colorado almost dead last in public support for higher education.

Principal: 'I follow the rules'

Denver principal Nicole Veltze told a judge Friday that she would have reported an incident at her school to police if she'd had any idea that she should have.

Firm hand, good results

A Montbello High School student reported his Blackberry stolen on Thursday, and within 15 minutes, Dean of Students Earl Howard III hit classroom 202 with the force for which he is revered and feared by thousands of teenagers.

Abuse case that changed DPS

Denver Public Schools reports show the Jan. 21 arrest of a popular principal left numerous schools questioning when student horseplay turns into sexual offense.

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