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Flagstaff Academy Charter School has once again earned statewide and national acclaim, having been named one of the 2025 Colorado Trailblazer Schools to Watch

Chalkbeat
Teachers, child care providers, and other people who work with children will soon be subject to a new state law

The 74
In April, the U.S. Department of Education resolved an obscure 2013 privacy complaint — a dispute so old that the student at the heart of it has almost certainly graduated by now.

Coloradoan
Liberty Common High School was ranked No. 2 in Colorado on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 list of the best high schools with five others ranking among the top 10 in the state.

Denver Post
A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.

The 74
Since hitting a record high in 2022, national chronic absenteeism rates have dropped modestly — by about five percentage points — according to the most recent available data, but still remain persistently higher than pre-pandemic levels.

The 74
The U.S. Department of Education will start to bring back roughly 250 civil rights staffers that it tried to fire in March, according to a schedule the U.S. Department of Education submitted in federal court Tuesday.

The 74
American teens’ feelings of loneliness rose 8% and suicidal thoughts rose 5% between 2019 and 2023.

The 74
Across the country, teachers unions have been challenging the constitutionality of their states’ private school voucher programs in court. And in at least two cases, they’ve won.

KOAA On August 13, the Woodland Park School District Board of Education approved a 30-year contract extension with Merit Academy, the district’s existing charter school, during a board meeting.

Columbian
When Siri Fiske founded the Mysa Microschool in Washington, D.C., in 2016, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for her small, one-room schoolhouse model.

CBS News
Not every school gets a visit from its city's mayor on its first day of school, but the Lotus School for Excellence in Aurora did on Tuesday.

Colorado Sun
Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday ordered state lawmakers back to the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 21 for a special legislative session aimed at addressing the nearly $1 billion hole punched in the state budget by the so-called big, beautiful bill, congressional Republicans’ federal tax and spending measure.

K-12 Dive
The slowing growth in private school enrollment over the past four years indicates the “COVID-19 increase is almost over” or that other factors “driving net private school enrollment increases are waning,” according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank and research organization.

The 74
The nation’s largest charter system has dealt a crushing legal blow to its foes – but challenges remain for the once-revolutionary movement.

The 74
The Colorado Democrat surprised pundits in April by announcing his bid for governor in the upcoming midterm election.

IHE
Senate Republicans are planning to protect the Pell Grant program, keeping the maximum grant award at $7,395 for the coming academic year, despite the Trump administration’s proposal to lower it to $5,710.

The 74
Money matters in education, but it’s no guarantee of student success.

9News  
Colorado Skies Academy, a Centennial-based charter school with a focus on aviation and aerospace education, abruptly announced its closure on Friday, just 16 days before the start of the school year.

Final funding released from the federal government from what was withheld from Colorado of Title I-IV funds in early July

Chalkbeat
Several state Head Start associations and parent groups are fighting a Trump administration effort to bar undocumented children from the federally funded Head Start program.

Coloradan
AXIS International Academy is on the move again, this time to what its co-founders are calling its “forever home.”

ABC News
At 5280 High School in Denver, the morning bell gives way to a different kind of assembly for the first day of school.

Important information regarding federal funding withheld from the state of Colorado as of July 1, 2025