Education

CSU’s inclusive language guide has blown up in right-wing media.

As Democratic presidential candidates debate “busing,” many Americans are revisiting the era when their cities desegregated schools by sending students to other neighborhoods each day. Those cities included Denver, where schools were shaped by crosstown busing for decades, until 1995. At first, families could choose to participate in a voluntary busing program.

Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, a grassroots community nonprofit that focuses on racial justice in education, is launching an offshoot that will focus directly on electoral politics.

Mark Kennedy answered every question, no matter how uncomfortable.

The associate professor has been at DU law school the longest but is paid the least.

Handcuffs can still be used on middle and high school students.

Only two public high schools in Colorado make the top ten.

Despite the black student’s insistence that he was not responsible, the teacher told the black student to clean it up.

The university has lowered its estimate of participants to around 800.

The daughter of a Columbine victim honored with an ESPY is a supporter.

Jessica Roe alleges that the school board didn’t listen with an open mind.

The run annually attracts thousands of drunken revelers who strip to their underwear.

Mark Kennedy’s contract is only for three years, after which opponents hope he’ll be ousted.

The accounts of supporters and detractors of Natalie Pramenko could not be more different.

Two regents say they’ll vote against Kennedy, while another went nuclear in pledging his support.

The four-year graduation rate last year for Native American students was 54 percent, far below the district average of 70 percent.

An increasing number of alumni say they wouldn’t donate to the university should Mark Kennedy be hired.

The pace of school shootings has actually quickened in the second decade since the 1999 Columbine attack.

Sol Pais was found in the vicinity of Echo Lake Lodge near the base of Mount Evans.

A credible threat against schools in the metro area led to an unprecedented district-wide lockout at Denver Public Schools.

As of this writing, Columbine threat suspect Sol Pais is still at large.

The founder of Safe2Tell is moving on in order to advocate for the service to be in place nationally.