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Colorado lawmakers are considering deep funding cuts to two of the state’s only dedicated after-school grant programs, a move advocates say could harm thousands of the state’s most vulnerable students.

Colorado Sun
Colorado health officials Wednesday announced a third child connected to Broomfield schools has been infected with measles, making the cluster of cases the state’s first official measles outbreak of the year.

Fox 21 News
Banning Lewis Academy is a tuition-free public charter school authorized by D49, proudly serving the Banning Lewis Ranch community and surrounding neighborhoods in Colorado Springs since 2006. Grades offered are kindergarten through 12th grade.

Chalkbeat
A bill introduced Wednesday by a group of Colorado lawmakers would begin the process to unite the state’s higher education department with numerous workforce development and labor programs.

Coloradoan
Poudre School District’s Board of Education is hoping to regain control over the growth of charter schools within its geographic boundaries by regaining its exclusive chartering authority.

The 74
Nearly six years after the start of the COVID pandemic, nearly one in four U.S. schoolchildren has received tutoring, according to a new, wide-ranging survey of more than 23,000 parents, 60% of whom say they strongly support offering the service for free to students who fall behind.

Sioux Falls
Lawmakers advanced a bill to allow charter schools in South Dakota on a 4-3 committee vote Tuesday, after debate over whether the proposal would expand opportunity or further strain public schools.

Hechinger Report
For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and controversial — urban education reforms. Now, a long-term study provides a clearer picture of their successes and disappointments.

The Gazette
News reports confirm what many school districts already know: public school enrollment in Colorado is steadily declining. The state lost roughly 10,000 public school students in just the past year, part of a multi-year trend now playing out nationwide.

K-12 Dive
The FY 26 funding measure provides specific guardrails for allocated grant money at the Education Department.

CDE
CDE is asking community members to share feedback on proposed revisions to the State's Academic Standards for high school math.

Chalkbeat
Colorado Senate lawmakers gave crucial approval Monday to a bill that would update the state’s “red flag” gun laws to allow K-12 schools to request that someone’s guns be temporarily confiscated.

CBS News
A real estate company is asking for the Douglas County School District's blessing to explore bringing affordable teacher housing to Meridian Village.

Chalkbeat
Every year, Colorado schools scramble to finish budgets before June 30. But state lawmakers typically don’t approve the School Finance Act, which signals how much state money districts stand to receive, until the last days of the legislative session.

The 74
What never sat right with me was the research community’s view that a teacher’s experience didn’t matter much after the first few years.

Chalkbeat
A southern Colorado school district could soon drop the law firm whose controversial lead lawyer helped launch what backers have called the state’s “first public Christian school.”

The 74
Despite AI’s uncertainty, industry is doubling down on innovation. School leaders need to do the same thing on transforming education.

CPR
The Trump administration’s weeks-long immigration enforcement campaign in Minneapolis, which has shuttered schools and terrified students and parents, has left one group particularly vulnerable: children with disabilities.

EdWeek
In every corner of the United States, school districts struggle with teacher shortages.

Fordham Institute
The grownups are fighting harder and louder than they have in years, both in words and deeds, about education, as well as everything else.

RMV
The success of Merit Academy in Woodland Park is no secret. When your school is ranked #5 of all K-12 Colorado Public Schools, it is hard to hide.

The 74
Brookings study finds AI undermines educational and social-emotional development, as well as teacher-student trust.

K-12 Dive
Senate and House leaders reject Trump administration plans to outsource management of Education Department programming.

CPR
Chronic underfunding, low pay, inadequate benefits and escalating administrative demands on teachers are driving Colorado teachers away from the profession.