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…
Last week, a Centaurus High student was busted after an explosive device was found near a high-traffic area of the school. So it’s understandable that the discovery of what was termed a suspicious bag would cause a freak-out among officials at Boulder’s Fairview High School, not to mention the media…
As you can see, the slogan for Cherokee Trail High School’s 2013 yearbook is “Reflections: Aspire to Inspire.” But one student’s inspirational phrase, which accompanied his photo in the printed edition, has put administrators in freak-out mode, with staffers required to black it out. What’s the quote? Awkwardly, the TV…
A teacher who kept her kids quiet by placing tape over 28 second graders’ mouths may not have used the best judgment — and she’s been placed on administrative leave. But she didn’t commit a crime. That’s the conclusion of the Aurora Police Department about a bizarre incident that happened…
This week, CU-Boulder Regent Jim Geddes argued that the university should add more conservative faculty as a way of striking a better ideological balance at the famously liberal institution — this after CU chose Steven Hayward as the Board of Regents’ first “visiting scholar in conservative thought.” But what will…
In 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech, killed 32 people in one of the deadliest campus shootings in U.S. history. About 1,500 miles away, Ben Reed, a teacher at Standley Lake High School in Westiminster had seen enough. But little did he know what his search for a…
Yesterday, CU-Boulder Police spokesman Ryan Huff called 4/20 on the campus, which was closed for the second consecutive year, a “non-event,” and the description is apt. As a huge crowd gathered at Denver’s Civic Center Park for a rally marred by a shooting, CU-Boulder, which once drew 10,000-revelers-plus on 4/20,…
Last week, CU-Boulder Police’s Ryan Huff outlined plans related to the campus’ closure on 4/20, and said most visitor-pass applications seemed inspired by Friday’s Macklemore concert rather than plans to protest the second consecutive April 20 shutdown. And so it went: While a huge crowd gathered at Denver’s Civic Center…
