Yesenia Robles

Jeffco closed several schools in the past few years due to declining enrollment but still faces budget deficits.

Finding the right use for shuttered schools is a timely debate as enrollment declines in districts around Colorado.

Construction workers in hardhats and safety vests bustled around the 7,000-square-foot Loveland building, installing fixtures and painting. It was late October, and they had two months to go before the

Resultados de la elección de solicitud de impuestos de Adams 14: Los resultados tardíos muestran que las propuestas 4A y 4B están tomando la delantera

The Colorado State Board of Education heard a presentation from a task force about its new recommendations for the accountability system on Wednesday.

When looking at just math scores, 10th grade English learners had a 13.6% drop in scores compared to a 1.3% drop among 10th graders who aren’t English learners.

A working group is recommending rural districts get priority in Colorado's match program that provides supplemental funding to mill levy override taxes raised in school districts. Many rural districts, like Fowler pictured above, have never passed such a tax increase.

Having a two-tiered approach “really represents a significant approach of maximizing what we can do with scarce amounts of dollars,” said one group member, Brett Johnson, the chief financial officer for the Aurora school district, who helped come up with the idea.

'No matter when a student enters within this year, the curriculum really provides a good entry point to start or continue their English acquisition'

Joel also said that as word got out, they saw high school students walk out of class, go to the elementary schools to pick up their siblings, and then go into hiding. “We weren’t quite ready for that”