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Following allegations of mismanagement, the Aurora school district is proposing a new improvement effort at Gateway High. This time it’s an innovation plan.

Tapping into the skills and experience of their digital marketing partners could offer local brands a solution to the growing skills shortage facing marketing departments, especially in critical data science areas...

Experts caution against focusing too closely on the specific dropout rates themselves, which can lag years behind more reliable measures and are difficult to interpret.

One worrying sign: Dropout rates are up as well. Look up your school or district’s rates here.

About half of the school districts in Colorado saw higher graduation rates for the class of 2022 than for the class of 2019, before the start of the pandemic. 

It's unusual to see the graduation rate improve at the same time the dropout rate increases, said the Colorado Department of Education.

About half of the school districts in Colorado saw higher graduation rates for the class of 2022 than for the class of 2019, before the start of the pandemic. 

The group's goal is to engage students and bring them back to the classroom before they decide to drop-out from high school.

The Greeley-Evans district is using federal COVID relief money to pay for a three-year effort to boost high school attendance and course completion.

When Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late 1990s in a small town in southern Colorado, she never expected to graduate.