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…
Earlier this week, we chatted with CU-Boulder Police’s Ryan Huff about the school’s preparations to close campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year. He said many of the 100 or so people who’d requested visitor passes for tomorrow seemed more focused on attending tonight’s Macklemore concert than protesting the…
Last month, CU-Boulder announced that it would be closing campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year — and attorney Rob Corry, who unsuccessfully challenged the shutdown in 2012, is encouraging Boulderites to take part in Denver’s 4/20 rally. If many of them do so, CU-Boulder could be quiet this…
At this writing, as we’ve noted, a big snowstorm predicted throughout the week has yet to materialize, but it’s said to be coming around midday. No matter how much white stuff falls, though, a snow day is unlikely to be announced for the Boulder Valley School District, which didn’t grant…
Last month, after CU-Boulder announced that it would be closing campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year, marijuana attorney Rob Corry, who unsuccessfully challenged last year’s shutdown, said he was exploring the possibility of seeking a permit for a 4/20 event at CU this year as an alternative to…
Update: Tustin Amole, spokesperson for the Cherry Creek School District, told us on February 28 that a decision about the future of Overland High School teacher Carly McKinney, who was put on leave after news broke about controversial photos and tweets sent from her Twitter account, was likely to come…
CU-Boulder recently announced that it would close its campus on April 20 for the second consecutive year in an effort to squelch the annual 4/20 rally traditionally held there. Attorney Rob Corry, who last year took CU to court in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the closure, has some new…
While speaking about CU-Boulder’s plan to close the campus again on April 20 in an effort to end the 4/20 event there, spokesman Bronson Hilliard stressed the need to communicate clearly about the university’s rationale, and he wasn’t kidding. After we published posts about a threatened lawsuit to block the…
CU-Boulder’s decision to close campus on April 20 for the second straight year in an effort to permanently squash the long-running 4/20 event there has already generated complaints and threats of legal action. Current representatives of Colorado University Student Government (CUSG) aren’t fans of a campus shutdown, either, and argued…
