National School Choice Week highlights progress and inequities in Denver metro area schools

The Gazette
Experts estimate that one in five children have dyslexia, a neurological disability that affects a person’s aptitude for reading, writing and spelling — and presents greater challenges for success in school.

Chalkbeat
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that aims to steer large amounts of federal money away from public schools and toward private-school vouchers and other “educational alternatives.”

Chalkbeat
Colorado students continue to perform better than students in many other states and showed slight improvements on national math and reading tests, but they’re still scoring below pre-pandemic levels.

The 74
A new District of Columbia Council bill mandating training for public charter school boards, while well-meaning, fails to address the real problem in D.C.’s public schools: the city’s large, growing racial student achievement gap.

Fordham Institute
The education world was greeted with encouraging news over the weekend when President Trump announced that former Tennessee education commissioner Penny Schwinn would serve as the next Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

Chalkbeat
Colorado’s class of 2024 had a higher graduation rate and a lower dropout rate than the previous class — a trajectory that the state education commissioner called “promising progress.”