A Legislative Progress Report
Colorado’s education debate heated up on the House floor Friday, as race, religion, partisanship,...
03/21/19
A Legislative Progress Report
Colorado’s education debate heated up on the House floor Friday, as race, religion, partisanship, and even reproductive health entered discussion of a measure that aims to make lessons in American government and history more inclusive.
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03/18/19
Community Resources for Financial Wellness
What: A free event for educators and school staff looking to build financial security
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03/18/19
Future Leaders Winner Is Advocate For The Environment
Throughout the school year, CBS4 along with the Colorado School of Mines and PDC Energy honor Future Leaders, high school students who are excelling in the fields of science, technology, engineering, or math, STEM. Future Leaders winners get $1,000 and a feature on CBS4.
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03/14/19
At Our Core: College Success is Sweeping the Network!
As college admittance letters continue to come in, and Senior Signing Day just around the corner, you can feel the excitement building across the network as we celebrate our incredible seniors. If it wasn’t for the epic bomb cyclone this week, Cole’s Class of 2019 would have celebrated their 100% college acceptance success on Thursday as well. But on Monday afternoon, middle schoolers, high schoolers, friends and family of the College View Founding Class packed into the gym, decorated with posters created by 9th & 10th graders, to celebrate their founding class.
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03/14/19
SXSW "Is School Choice the Black Choice" Panel
For many years, Derrell Bradford says, he never understood why his mother and grandmother used to gather at the kitchen table when he was a child, debating whose address they would lie about to get him access to a better public school.
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03/14/19
22 Diverse Book Choices
In a vibrant, multicultural society, representing the richness of students’ lives in a class or school library takes a conscious effort. Including writers and fictional characters with a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and life circumstances is a way to increase the chances that students will find both windows and mirrors in the library—books that reflect their lives, and ones that give them insight into the lives and experiences of people who aren’t like them.
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03/12/19
Snow Days 3/13 & 3/14
UPDATE (5pm, 3/13): Schools and the Home Office will be closed again on Thursday 3/14 due to continuing poor weather and road conditions.
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03/12/19
Advancing Intentional Equity in Charter Schools
The number of students enrolled in public charter schools has steadily grown since the inception of the charter model in the 1990s, and now accounts for 6 percent of the total number of students enrolled in public schools across the country.1 This statistic alone demonstrates the important role that charter schools play in the delivery of public education in the forty-four states and the District of Columbia that have adopted charter school laws.2 Over this period of growth, however, the charter school model has been the subject of heated controversy, including whether they equitably serve all students regardless of race, class, sex, disability, or first language.
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03/12/19
CG MS Student Council Visits the State Capitol
As an annual tradition for the past 3 years, Conservatory Green Middle School’s Student Council visited Colorado’s State Capitol building last month. Before getting a private tour of the opulent building, including a rare opportunity to visit the west-facing balcony reserved for members of Colorado’s legislative branch, students had the unique opportunity to have a round table discussion with Majority Leader, State Representative, Alec Garnett.
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03/11/19
Cole Helps Manual Bring Home the W!
DENVER — Manual trailed often during the Class 3A boys basketball state championship game on Saturday. But an explosive end to the third quarter put Thunderbolts in position to win a state title.
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