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Last month’s ceremony granting honorary Manual High School diplomas to 11 former students affected by the school’s one-year closure in 2006 might have seemed like a nice gesture toward people

Public opinion has turned definitively against the Denver Public Schools board and administration in recent weeks, and it’s hard to see how this will change between now and November’s election,

It’s not surprising that a new bipartisan poll found that the Denver school board is deeply unpopular, given the board’s collective inability to focus on what matters most at any

Monday’s Denver school board meeting offered an almost perfect microcosm of the board’s operational ineptitude over the past 16 months: struggling to get out of its own way, and then

The murder of George Floyd almost three years ago set in motion a long overdue reckoning over police violence against communities of color across the country.

While Denver Public Schools is struggling to present a coherent response to the fatal shooting of an East High School student a block from the school’s front door last month,

A consequential research study released by the University of Colorado-Denver School of Public Affairs last week shows that Denver Public Schools students experienced unprecedented gains in academic achievement and graduation

It’s tempting right now to steal a line from Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report: “I’ve seen enough.” Wasserman, a nonpartisan political analyst, uses that line to call congressional

Denver Public Schools has mishandled the school closure issue over the past few weeks. From a community perspective, the announcement seemed abrupt and out of the blue, even though planning

Colorado’s total election season expenditures reached $159.27 million as of Nov. 8 according to Secretary of State reports from candidates and various campaign committees. That amount covers candidates and ballot