When the federal education department announced in March that Jeffco Public Schools had in its view run afoul of anti-discrimination law, it cited one key piece of evidence: rosters indicating 61 boys were on girls’ sports teams.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero has applied for a job leading Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida, he confirmed via a statement Thursday afternoon.
The original super shoe, the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4%, got its name from a study at University of Colorado Boulder.
The University of Denver announced a major academic restructuring Tuesday that includes closing and merging departments and combining schools at the 11,500-student campus.
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Cherry Creek Schools for what it calls “a wide range of racially discriminatory programming.”
Denver Public Schools is set to become the latest K-12 system in Colorado to ban students’ use of cellphones during school hours, with the Board of Education likely to give final approval.
Teacher discipline in Colorado spiked over the last five years, with the revocation, suspension and surrender of teachers’ licenses reaching a record high in 2022 with 31 lost licenses and remaining elevated in the following years, according to records kept by the Colorado Department of Education.
Jeffco Public Schools’ Board of Education named Rob Stein, who formerly led the Roaring Fork School District, as the district’s sole finalist for interim superintendent.
The Cherry Creek Schools’ Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint parent Keith Frazier to a vacant seat on the five-member board.
The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday again threatened to pull federal funding from Jeffco Public Schools over policies the federal government says discriminate against girls by allowing transgender students to compete in female sports and use women’s bathrooms.