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What Bill Nye had to say to students at CU Boulder
From elementary school classrooms to CU's Macky Auditorium, Bill Nye the Science Guy has never stopped inspiring Generation Z students. Thursday, the university posted a video showing Nye telling a sold-out audience to "change the world!"
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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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Jefferson Academy boys soccer smacks Denver Christian in massive semifinal victory
LAKEWOOD — The last time Jefferson Academy boys soccer found itself in a Class 3A state semifinal, one year ago, the Jaguars left heartbroken when a round of penalty kicks failed to fall in their favor. They spent the entire year that followed putting in the work on the...
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Colorado Students Tear Down & Rebuild a V-8 in Record Time at AAPEX Competition
A pair of high school students, who are concurrently enrolled in automotive classes at Arapahoe Community College, won the 2026 AAPEX Student Competition. John Parmley, 16, and Schafer Eirich, 18, tore down and rebuilt a V-8 engine in front of hundreds of people in just 39 minutes and 11 seconds, shaving more than an hour off the winning time from last year’s competition.
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In split vote, Denver school board approves closure of Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy
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. Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy will close at the end of the school year after the Denver school board voted 4-2 Thursday to shutter it. The high school, which was modeled on historically Black colleges and universities, has just 24 students this year . Board Vice President Monica Hunter and member John Youngquist voted no. Hunter, a former Denver teacher who works for the statewide teachers union, asked about pausing the vote until an agreement granting concessions to teachers at the school could be finalized. Superintendent Alex Marrero said the school district was done negotiating. He said the two sides verbally agreed on a $1,000 payment to the teachers, plus protections for international teachers with work visas. Marrero said the district rejected other requests. Hunter said those included giving non-tenured teachers two paid days off to interview for other jobs. “The rationale is this is precedent setting,” Marrero said, “and potentially we have some more (school) consolidations coming, and it would not behoove us
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Signing Day: Eaglecrest track star Zenobia Witt reveals commitment at ceremony
AURORA | Zenobia Witt wanted a little mystery about where she would continue her track & field career at the next level, but the choice was pretty clear. The Eaglecrest High School senior star — a six-time Class 5A state champion with big plans for her final prep chapter in the spring — used Wednesday morning’s Signing/Commitment Day celebration to reveal her future destination.