Denver Public Schools fired teacher Jennifer Honka, accused of making students kiss each other in class and of exhibiting other inappropriate behavior, including sharing what a judge referred to as “sensitive and potentially traumatizing information” in class.
President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.
The Anti-Defamation League recently filed a U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights complaint alleging a Jewish student faced persistent and escalating antisemitic harassment at Boulder’s Southern Hills Middle School.
K-12 districts across metro Denver are laying off employees, closing schools and dipping into their reserves as they continue to face budget deficits amid falling student enrollment and rising costs.
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.