DPS schools with years of low test scores to once again face closure

EdWeek
Students perceive science, technology, engineering, and math-related classes as too hard; they come to the coursework with vastly different levels of support from home; and students must master foundational concepts or risk getting left behind as material becomes increasingly complex.

Denver Post
Colorado will spend more than $10 billion on K-12 public schools during the 2025-26 fiscal year after Gov. Jared Polis signed the state’s new School Finance Act.

NPR
House Republicans' reconciliation bill, which includes a first-of-its-kind national school voucher program, is now heading to the Senate.

NPR
A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

CTR
Parents and residents of Sterling Ranch delivered a wave of criticism at two events concerning the proposal of a “classical” charter school in Highlands Ranch this week: a statutorily required community meeting May 19 and the Colorado Charter School Institute (CSI) board meeting yesterday.

Washington Examiner
Charter schooling has long suffered from a “more-of-the-same” problem. For all the opportunities to rethink the familiar schoolhouse, few of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools have actually done so.