Update: At least two of the nine Denver Public Schools Board of Education candidates — Michael Kiley and Meg Schomp — voluntarily disclosed all campaign contributions over $100 by midnight on October 25, fulfilling a request from a coalition of organizations that includes the Denver teachers union, which has endorsed…
Outgoing Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida, once an active member of the Democratic party in Denver, is now co-chair of the 1,800-member Denver Green Party. And in that capacity, Merida, seen here, is speaking out on two ballot measures: Proposition AA and Referred Question 2A. Both deal with…
Parents (and kids) opposed to standardized testing took their fight to the streets this past weekend during the annual Zombie Crawl. With bloody pencils protruding from their skulls, kids held signs with messages such as, “Testing Kills Brains.” “Standardized testing is actually harmful for our children,” says Amber Olson, a…
Like much of the rhetoric surrounding next month’s Denver Public Schools school board election, the nine candidates are roughly split when it comes to who’s funding their campaigns. The four so-called reform candidates have received big checks from Phil Anschutz, Daniel Ritchie and DaVita CEO Kent Thiry and his wife…
Denver Public Schools is projecting that it will once again be the largest school district in Colorado, a title it hasn’t held since the 1970s. With an estimated 88,208 students enrolled this year, up from 72,188 students ten years ago, DPS calls itself the “fastest-growing urban school district in the…
West High School is closed until Wednesday so that exterminators can ensure the campus is bedbug-free after three of the little suckers were found in a classroom, according to a letter sent home to parents and shared in its entirety by 7NEWS. In the letter, West’s principals assure parents that…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
CU-Boulder makes headlines for things like alleged on-campus looting after recent floods or a student who fed a teacher and classmates pot brownies. But the folks at the school would prefer to get attention for academic excellence, exemplified by the 2012 Nobel Prize won by David Wineland, who holds a…
The decision by the University of Denver to honor former President George W. Bush at a DU fundraiser has been controversial for months. Now, with Bush scheduled to speak at downtown Denver event this evening, a group of concerned students and alumni, among others, are planning a protest and press…
Colorado State University has gone video crazy. Just days ago, CSU shared a clip of mascot Cam the Ram training for the Rocky Mountain Showdown — which didn’t really work out, given the CU Buffs surprisingly comfortable win. Now, the school has released what it describes as an “artistic video”…
Colorado documentary-maker Brian Malone has taken on some big topics over the years, including the media in Breaking News and environmental dangers via Intelligent Life — not to mention the late, great Blinky the Clown. But his latest project — The Reformers, launching tonight in Parker — is among his…
Outspoken Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida will not run for re-election. In a blog post on her website (the full text of which is below), she explains why: “I cannot, in good conscience, serve on a board whose only function now is to give tests.” Merida was the…
The latest edition of the Princeton Review’s annual party schools list is out, and for the second consecutive year, CU-Boulder didn’t make the cut — this despite being named Playboy’s best party school as recently as 2011, and finishing third in the Daily Beast’s rankings last year. But despite two…
Novelist Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize winner for Beloved and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom just last year. But that doesn’t mean a group of concerned Adams County parents want high school age students to read her work. The parents in question have launched a petition calling for…
Wearing a sparkly white tank top and pink sneakers, Coy Mathis held the hand of her lawyer this afternoon as he announced to the press that the six-year-old won her civil rights case. The Colorado Civil Rights Division found that Coy’s school was wrong to bar the transgender first-grader from…
We’ve been following the story of Coy Mathis, a transgender six year old from Fountain who prompted a complaint over access to the girls’ bathroom at her elementary school. Now, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has announced that the Colorado Civil Rights Division ruled in Coy’s favor. Look…
As part of what’s termed their “guiding principles,” the Regents serving the University of Colorado call on the institution to “respect diversity in all of its forms, including diversity of political, geographic, cultural, intellectual and philosophical perspectives.” Is CU accomplishing these goals? Critics have long argued that it falls short,…
As we’ve reported, a lawsuit known as Lobato v. Colorado (it’s named for Center High grad Taylor Lobato) shook up the educational establishment when, in December 2011, a Denver District judge agreed with plaintiffs that school funding in the state is inadequate. The majority of the Colorado Supreme Court doesn’t…
A much-contested deal to trade eleven acres of open space in the Cherry Creek corridor for an office building in central Denver, pushed by Mayor Michael Hancock and approved by city council in April, has triggered not one but two citizen petition drives to nix the swap and protect the…
