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DENVER — In his first six months in office, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston managed to get more than 1,200 homeless people off the streets and into housing. That seemed like a fitting feat for a city that prides itself on its compassion. It would turn out to be a footnote compared with the humanitarian crisis that Denver would soon face as thousands of migrants flooded the city, many of them bused from the southern border by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and almost all of them in need of shelter and supp
Hundreds of migrant children, many fresh from crossing the southern border, have registered to attend Denver schools since last summer, numbers that continue to grow week after week, boosting enrollment in Colorado’s largest school district and at least temporarily reversing a years-long decline in students.
Statewide enrollment in preschool through 12th grade fell by 1,800 children in October to 881,464 students, according to data released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Education.
Enrollment in Colorado’s public schools has reached its lowest point in a decade, continuing a decline that has occurred since the coronavirus pandemic and in large part due to falling birth rates.