Education

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Denver Public Schools after a teacher, Jennifer Honka, was accused of making female students kiss each other in class.

The Denver school board spent most of Monday morning behind closed doors talking with an outside attorney and Marrero.

Some school districts have started to rethink how they’re teaching writing. In the Douglas County School District, administrators have added more professional development for teachers in evidence-based writing approaches.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Colorado on Thursday for offering in-state tuition rates to undocumented students who live in the state, the latest turn in an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to end such tuition breaks for students who are in the country illegally.

About 33% of programs at for-profit schools are expected to fail.

In Colorado, more than $375 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were either terminated and reinstated through legal levers, or axed altogether — in the first 18 months of the Trump administration, according to Grant Witness.

Nationally, the grade with the worst attendance record before high school is kindergarten. A Colorado school district is using many tools to counter absences among its youngest students.

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero is out of the running for the job leading Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

The Virginia-based Public Interest Legal Foundation is alleging that Denver Public Schools’ voting map was “drawn with illegal racial intent,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.