The Board of Education overseeing Jeffco Public Schools, the second-largest district in the state, voted unanimously Thursday to close 16 elementary schools as a way to tackle plunging enrollment. The closures, most of which will take place at schools across…

Just weeks into the new 2022-23 academic year, schools are facing what is becoming a familiar hurdle: staffing shortages. School districts in the Denver metro area are struggling to find paraprofessionals to assist teachers in classrooms and enough people to…

After a heated debate, Denver’s Board of Education voted Thursday to appoint Charmaine Lindsay, a family law attorney, to a vacant seat on the board. The vote followed multiple rounds of voting as board members struggled to agree on who…

Proposed changes to statewide guidelines used by Colorado teachers to develop curriculum for history and civics classes include fewer mentions of people of color and those in the LGBTQ community, the latest draft of the revisions showed. A committee tasked…

School districts on Wednesday said they are increasing the security on their campuses during the final weeks of the academic year following a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school a day earlier. At least 19 young children and two…

Five people have applied to fill a seat on the Denver school board, which becomes vacant when director Brad Laurvick leaves next month. Laurvick, a pastor, resigned after he was appointed to First United Methodist Church in Fort Collins. His…

Williamson and Ofqual apologise, scrapping standardisation model after outcry First published on Mon 17 Aug 2020 11.01 EDT Gavin Williamson and Ofqual have apologised to students and their parents, as they announced that all A-level and GCSE results in England…

If all goes to the school board’s plan, Douglas County School District could have a new superintendent by the end of next month. The district’s Board of Education approved a timeline Tuesday that will have them select one or more…

Last modified on Fri 8 May 2020 07.33 EDT My father, Paul Kennedy, who has died aged 78 after suffering from pancreatic cancer, was a writer and sociologist, and a hugely popular lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. His final book,…

People in modern democracies responded to the same COVID-19 pandemic crisis policies differently depending on who proposed them, University of Colorado psychology researchers have found. The people in seven countries were most likely to accept and support COVID-19 action urged…