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Westword
Two Denver establishments win Eater Awards
From the stories making headlines to the restaurants, music and culture that make Denver one of a kind, Westword is there. Help us raise $50,000 by December 31 to keep independent local journalism going strong in 2027. As 2026 slowly fades into oblivion, nearly every media platform covering food and...
The Denver Gazette
CDOT pauses full Colorado Boulevard BRT review until 2028
The Colorado Department of Transportation is putting a full Bus Rapid Transit review of Colorado Boulevard on hold until 2028 and will focus near-term work on sidewalks, intersections and other safety improvements. In a statement this week, the department said analysis of additional BRT features “would benefit from further study that incorporates performance data from […]
Chalkbeat
In Denver, a 3-school effort to take advantage of the federal tax credit scholarship program
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Most of the efforts for public schools to get in on a new federal tax credit have been macro: Public education boosters are creating organizations to grant scholarships for tutoring or SAT prep across an entire school district, state, or region of the country. But a new effort in Denver is micro. Here, parents are launching an organization to grant scholarships at just three public schools: East High, Morey Middle, and McAuliffe International. “The general concept is as a parent, if I’m going to give a donation, I’d like to see it impact my neighborhood school,” said East High parent Greg Graeber. This type of experimentation and parental choice is allowed under the federal tax credit program, a major school choice expansion that’s projected to raise billions of dollars for private school tuition and other educational expenses. The program works like this: Taxpayers will receive a federal tax credit of up to $1,700 if they donate to a scholarship-granting organization. Those organizations then give
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