Education Sector News

CPR
As more Front Range districts consider school closures, families and educators reflect on what Jeffco’s earlier consolidations meant for students, school communities, and resources.

EdWeek
A special education researcher discusses concerns about federal disability guidance and explains why schools’ responsibilities for helping students prepare for adulthood remain in place.

Chalkbeat
Denver Public Schools lost nearly 1,800 students this fall, a larger decline than expected that could prompt additional school closures despite the district’s four-year moratorium.

Chalkbeat
After approving only 14 of 54 applications, state officials are considering permanent rules to strengthen oversight of publicly funded homeschool enrichment programs.

Daily Record
During the past 30 years, Mountain View Core Knowledge School has become synonymous with top-notch education — a quality that has repeatedly been recognized both locally and statewide.

CPR
Thursday, Oct. 1, marks Colorado’s Student October Count Day, a date that determines school funding for the rest of the year.

Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
New data for the 2025-2026 school year show that homeschooling participation continued to grow across the country, but the pace of that growth has slowed.

The Conversation
Just over a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered an unusual judgment: a tied vote.

The 74
For years, researchers and education pundits have tried to tell parents that their children are not performing as well as they might think in school.

EdWeek
The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.

The 74
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ new essay about her daughter's school offers lessons about education, standards and parent choice.

NPR
The Boulder Valley School Board voted Tuesday night to move forward with a school consolidation plan that has stirred up anger among parents and caused sometimes raucous community pushback.

EdWeek
The Trump admin. is preparing to issue rules for its new, ambitious school choice program.

Chalkbeat
Colorado officials plan to seek third-party audits of a controversial public education group and its homeschool enrichment program.

Boardhawk
One recent sun-kissed morning, 16 middle-schoolers sat on tree stumps in a semi-circle in a flower-strewn meadow, as teacher and school cofounder Kristine Helsper, working on a portable whiteboard perched on an easel, ran through a lesson on number patterns.

The 74
Students attending microschools are progressing at the same rate as their peers nationally and sometimes a whole lot faster than expected.

The 74
Jenny Thamer had low hopes for the meeting called by the superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District to hear from families of autistic students.

Chalkbeat
Colorado teachers and other public school employees can now get help with down payments and closing costs through a new state program aimed at making homeownership more attainable.

The Dallas Morning News
When asked what would have improved her high school civics education, Caroline T. of California answered in five words: “Students not being so judgmental.”

The 74
With five simple words last year, Maine issued guidance that speaks volumes about how extreme weather is changing school.

Westword
Over 100 middle schools and high schools are expected to experience walkouts on Sept. 4.

Boardhawk
The release of 2025-2026 state testing data has given us the latest glimpse into the question that should be at the forefront of every conversation: How are students doing?

Chalkbeat
DPS will not close any schools this year under a new policy of shuttering persistently low-performing campuses.

Chalkbeat
Fewer schools are on Colorado’s watchlist for low performance this year, according to preliminary data from CDE.