EDUCATION

A problem is brewing at Denver's East High School where several master keys to internal doors are missing and replacing them could cost the school hundreds of thousands of dollars.

(The Center Square) - Denver Public Schools saw a boost in enrollment for the first time since the pandemic thanks to a surge of migrant students, according to a report the school board received this week. From 2014 to 2019, the school district’s enrollment had grown from 88,886 to 92,211....

Emily Griffith Technical College received a vehicle donation from a Denver-area dealership as a tool for automotive students to learn and practice their skills.

The bond money would be used for maintenance projects, building several new schools and expanding others, safety and technology improvements, and arts and athletics facility upgrades.

CHEROKEE TRAIL (SPRING 2024) TRACK & FIELD: The track yielded the most notable achievement for the school in the spring, as the boys track team repeated as Class 5A state champions and did so in style. Coach Chris Faust’s group accrued more points than any boys team had at the meet in two decades with 111. Junior Peyton Sommers racked up 40 of those points with a sweep of the 100, 200 and 400 meter dashes and brought home the 4×200 meter relay title as anchor of a team that also included seniors Jayden Hughes and Kahari Wilbon, and junior Nick Hoffsetz, which also came with a Colorado all-classification state record. The Cougars had eight other athletes who scored in at least one individual event (Wilbon in two), and all four relay teams placed in the top seven in a complete team performance. A week earlier, Cherokee Trail finished as the Centennial League boys runner-up with league champs in Sommers (100 and 200 meters), Wilbon (400 meters), junior Solomon Griffen (110 meter hurdles), junior Taylor Waters (pole vault), sophomore De Marcues Harris (triple jump) plus the 4×100 and 4×200 meter relays. The Cherokee Trail girls finished eighth as a team in the 5A state meet and had a state champion of their own in junior Kaeli Powe, who grabbed her gold in the triple jump, placed in the top three in three events and top nine of four. Powe was the Centennial League champion in the triple jump and long jump and the 4×100 meter relay team also took a league crown.

Today is June 12, 2024, and here's what you need to know:. Teller County official slams posts by Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams, asks for resignation. Teller County Commissioner Dan Williams, a Republican, publicly asked for the removal of Dave Williams from his state post in a letter that was endorsed by several other elected officials in the county.

Over the last 30 years, John Hopper and his students have restored landmarks, renovated the cemetery, and even established a museum.

A year after using low enrollment to justify school closures, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education is expected to consider a policy that would prohibit district officials from using enrollment numbers for future recommendations. The proposed policy suggests — as DPS officials have warned for years — more closures...

As the latest war between Israel and Hamas enters its eighth month, pro-Palestine student groups across the University of Colorado system have continued to engage in demonstrations to protest the CU system’s ties to corporations operating in Israel. On Memorial Day, organizers from CU Boulder’s chapter of Students for...

Londis Ramirez knew her plan was working when a preschooler making a self-portrait asked her, “Can you help me draw my panza?”. Panza means belly in Spanish, which is not the child’s first language. But a Head Start program tested last year and expanding this fall in Jefferson County is offering preschool in Spanish and English, one of many efforts in the works across Colorado as the state tries to get more Spanish-speaking students into preschool and assimilate new migrants from South America.

As pro-Palestinian encampments cropped up this spring on college campuses in Denver and across the nation, U.S. historians were quick to draw comparisons to the student movement that organized against the Vietnam War. At some level of analysis, the parallels are eerily similar, with today’s students calling for an end...

DENVER | The routes to two- and four-year colleges didn’t fit Maryssa McCray’s ambitions. McCray, 19, wants to be an officer in the Air Force. But her SAT score wasn’t high enough to enroll in the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Life events also got in the way. Her Kia Sportage got stolen. She also experienced the shock of her family needing to put down two of their dogs.