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Ask teachers how much their pay matters, and they often shy away from a direct answer, feeling ashamed to admit they do their job for anything beyond a sheer love of helping students.

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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.

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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.

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
For the past seven years, Denver Public Schools’ controversial policy of closing low-performing schools was a thing of the past.

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.

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According to the latest data, teacher turnover rates have been coming down for the last two years.

KRDO
On Monday, Chavez Huerta Preparatory Academy (CHPA)leadership held an emergency meeting for parents and community members during which officials laid out all the different options.

Denver Post
Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education will investigate Superintendent Alex Marrero’s allegations that Director John Youngquist discriminated against employees of color., board President Carrie Olson said Monday.

CharterFolk
That question is at the center of nearly every education policy fight today, from school board meetings to state legislatures. And Denver is no exception.*

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The federal government recently announced a range of changes impacting agencies overseeing mental health programs and education.

Fordham Institute
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Starlee Coleman, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike and David to discuss the religious charter schools case currently before the U. S. Supreme Court.

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Earlier this month, the Trump administration proposed a 2026 budget with a $60 million boost for charter schools — the first increase since 2019.

Senate
Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Michael Bennet (D-CO) reintroduced the Equitable Access to School Facilities Act, legislation that ensures charter schools can access public property and provide federal grants to states for charter school facilities.

The New York Times
The Supreme Court appeared open on Wednesday to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine.

American School
Crown Pointe Academy, a charter school in Westminster, Colorado, is scheduled to break ground next week on a new pre-K through second grade facility.

KRDO
At the Pueblo School District 60 board meeting on Monday night, the board voted 3-2 against releasing the K-12 academy to get charter status through the Colorado Charter School Institute (CSI).