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Colorado has invested considerable effort in improving reading instruction. Some districts showed notable gains on 2023 CMAS tests, but statewide, young students still aren’t reading at the levels their peers did before the pandemic. Ann Schimke / Chalkbeat […]
Colorado 2023 CMAS results show slow academic recovery, red flags for some students Read More »
By Erica Meltzer Dec 22, 2022 If you’re anything like us, you get to the end of the year and you can barely remember what happened. So we went back through our archives to reconstruct 2022. It turns out a lot
Top 10 Colorado Education Stories of 2022 — An Eventful Year Read More »
By Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat Senior Reporter Nov 17, 2022 Denver Public Schools will not close any schools next spring, after the board rejected a last-minute recommendation from Superintendent Alex Marrero to shutter two small schools. At the Thursday meeting, Marrero apparently surprised
By Melanie Asmar Nov 11, 2022 Five Denver schools recommended for closure could get a temporary reprieve. Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero announced late Thursday that he was changing his recommendation. Out of 10 schools initially recommended for closure, five
Central Park’s Denver Discovery 1 of 5 Schools Now Recommended for Closure Read More »
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado Aug 19, 11:41am EDT A year into his tenure, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero is rolling out a new strategic plan to guide Colorado’s largest school district. The plan, which Marrero calls a roadmap, focuses
A first look at Denver Public Schools’ new strategic plan Read More »
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado Aug 22, 7:29am EDT Denver Public Schools has the largest test score gaps in all of Colorado between white and Black students, and between white and Hispanic students, in both literacy and math. Data released last
Denver has the largest test score gaps by race in the state Read More »
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado Aug 24, 8:00am EDT School started in Denver on Monday, and with temperatures climbing into the high 80s this week, 48 campuses still don’t have air conditioning. That’s fewer than the 55 campuses that didn’t have
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado Aug 18, 1:10pm EDT Two months after the Denver school board turned down a charter school focused on Black students, the school won an appeal before the State Board of Education. The 5280 Freedom School was
Charter school centering Black students wins appeal to open in Denver Read More »
Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat Chicago Aug 19, 8:00am EDT When Chef Samantha Jones arrived at Juarez High School in Chicago six years ago, she discovered a shell of a culinary program. Jones set about to change that: She created a curriculum,
In Chicago and other urban districts, a new embrace of career and technical programs Read More »
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado Jul 12, 7:58am EDT Leer en español. On the first day of summer school in Denver, six incoming first graders took a spelling test. Using long pencils with unsmudged erasers, they spelled noche, jugo, pequeño, and
Denver bilingual programs face a threat: not enough students Read More »
