2025 Colorado General Assembly: The people’s guide to following education issues
Jan 07, 2025
2025 Colorado General Assembly: The people’s guide to following education issues
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Every January, 100 men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly gather in Denver for 120 days and make decisions that affect students and teachers in the classroom, university administrators trying to balance their budgets, and parents and students having to make tuition payments.
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Denver Public Schools has asked a federal court to dismiss two separate lawsuits filed by former deans at East High School who were shot and injured by a student two years ago.
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The percentage of students with good attendance fell sharply between 2019 and 2023, while the share of chronically absent students more than doubled, offering further evidence of the pandemic’s shattering effect on the nation’s classrooms.
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In a recent analysis, Katherine Bowser of the National Council on Teacher Quality finds that teachers are increasingly being priced out of housing in their communities.
The 74 What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance.
