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| Oct 5, 2026 | Teacher concerned for students who come ‘from less stable places’ amid Broomfield’s possible Centennial Elementary closure | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
For Centennial Elementary in Broomfield, the school district’s proposed plan for consolidation could mean the end of a school with a tight-knit culture and a change that could leave some students w... |
| Sep 20, 2026 | Boulder Valley engaged community early, but parents say closure decisions blindsided them | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Ahead of Tuesday’s school board vote, Boulder Valley Superintendent Rob Anderson is asserting that the district’s engagement around school closures stands out among other school districts in the st... |
| Sep 6, 2026 | Colorado students can be expelled for social media posts made outside of school. Attorneys say that violates the First Amendment. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By the time criminal defense attorney Jamie Hubbard stepped into a Denver courtroom in December 2023, hoping to sway a jury’s opinion in favor of her young client, the traditional bell no longer ma... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Adams 12 district recommends closing 6 schools to save $5 million | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Adams 12 Five Star Schools has recommended the district’s Board of Education close six schools in Northglenn, Thornton, Westminster and Broomfield — along with making other changes — to save $5 mil... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Fewer Colorado schools are on state’s watchlist for low performance, according to new ratings | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Fewer schools are on Colorado’s watchlist for low performance this year, according to preliminary data released Monday by the Colorado Department of Education.
More than 50 schools exited what Colo... |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Colorado teen arrested after posting viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ meme | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A teenager on Colorado’s Western Slope was arrested Monday after allegedly joining in the “Cat in the Hat” trend circulating social media, including TikTok, police said.
The teen’s post, brought to... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | These are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2026 CMAS tests | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The top-scoring schools on state achievement tests are all located in metro Denver, according to new data released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Education.
Students in third through eight... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | 2026 CMAS results show Colorado students making gains in math, falling behind in reading | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Language arts proficiency rates dropped for half of the grades that took Colorado’s latest statewide achievement tests, while rates in mathematics held steady or increased, according to 2026 result... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Thornton-based Adams 12 district to close as many as 7 schools as enrollment falls | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Leaders at Thornton-based Adams 12 Five Star Schools plan to close as many as seven schools next year, making the district the latest in metro Denver to shutter buildings as public school enrollmen... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Broomfield councilman, Adams County school board member appointed to Colorado House | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Colorado House of Representatives will soon be back at full, 65-member strength, after Democratic vacancy committees appointed a pair of replacement lawmakers ahead of the Wednesday start to th... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Adams 12 celebrates mill levy passing, plans for improvements | Adams 12 leaders are celebrating the passage of a $39 million mill levy override that will mean the school district can pay teachers more, add career and technical education classes and bolster safety measure instead of needing to make cuts... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Adams 12 Issue 5B: Voters leaning toward approving mill levy override | Voters were narrowly passing the Adams 12 Five Star Schools’ $39.42 million mill levy override, based on early election results Tuesday.
The measure had 51.6% voting “yes” and 48.4% voting “no,” based on election results as of 8:45 p.m.
If ... |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Adams 12 school board District 3: Juan Evans | Juan Evans
Website: juanevansforadams12.com
Age: 45
Years in your director district: 10
Education: Marketing degree from Metro State University
Professional background: Finance, banking and business development
Political/community experienc... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Broomfield gymnastics competes well at small Mountain Range meet | WESTMINSTER — Over the past five seasons, Broomfield and Mountain Range gymnastics have been among the favorites to win a Class 5A state championship.
The Mustangs claimed the gold the last two years, whereas the Eagles won the two years le... |
| Aug 24, 2025 | Area school districts grapple with cellphone limits | While compliance will never by 100% — teens are wired to test limits, after all — most students now leave their phones stowed away at school, Carroll said.
“All day long, they would see social media posts about other students’ perfect lives... |
| Aug 15, 2025 | 2025 softball season preview capsules for Boulder, Longmont and Broomfield areas | Legacy Lightning
Coach: Allie Hufford
Last year’s result: 6-17
Testing 1-2-3: Hufford takes over for the Lightning who last year suffered their first losing season since 2015.
The tea: The Lightning bring back star Sr. CF Prisca Smolens, a ... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Metro Denver school districts curtail teacher raises as budget pressures mount | Denver Public Schools, the state’s largest district, gave teachers partial raises last year and now has proposed a $400 pay increase for the next academic year, which averages out to a 0.47% cost-of-living raise. Neighboring Jeffco Public S... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Adams 12 school district to cut 150 jobs amid $27.5 million shortfall | Adams 12 Five Star Schools serves roughly 35,000 students in Adams and Broomfield counties.
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| Mar 20, 2025 | Education | What’s at stake in Colorado’s school-funding fight as teachers descend on Capitol | Polis pushed back on accusations that public school funding is being slashed, noting that his plan calls for a $138 million increase to K-12 funding next year.
“We’d love to find ways to better fund schools, but the exercise this year is ho... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Education | Broomfield’s Bal Swan Children’s Center proposes BVSD charter school | Grove Elementary is the first charter application in Boulder Valley in more than five years. In 2018, the school board denied an application for Ascent, a K-12 classical education charter. A charter high school extension of Boulder’s existi... |
| Sep 19, 2024 | The Shifting Landscape of Education in Boulder Valley | Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) is at a crossroads. Enrollment is on a downward trajectory, and the implications are profound. The district, once a beacon of educational excellence, now faces challenges that could reshape its future. ... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Education | Boulder Valley school board talks enrollment declines | Still, district officials are continuing to predict a slow but steady decline.
Projections show K-12 enrollment shrinking from last school year’s 27,273 students to 25,587 students in five years. At the school level, lower enrollment genera... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The Future of Softball: A New Season of Promise and Potential**
** | ** As summer wanes, the excitement of fall sports begins to stir. High school softball teams across the nation are gearing up for a season filled with promise. The local scene is buzzing with talent, ambition, and the thrill of competition.... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | High School Sports | Fall ‘Four’cast: Storylines to watch out for on the local softball scene | With Maestretti now at the University of Utah, Holy Family’s path to gold should figure to have at least one less giant roadblock. Which is great for the Tigers, but it’s the plethora of potential returning talent that should have them amon... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Special Sections | Raised in the Rockies Back to School 2024 | The new school year signals a fresh start, from blank notebooks to a chance to set new academic goals. But across Boulder and Adams counties, schools are also taking advantage of the start of a new academic year to usher in some changes. Ah... |
| May 17, 2024 | Track and field: Niwot sophomore stars stay centered in success | Ritzenhein, the daughter of the former 5,000-meter American record-holder, Dathan Ritzenhein, has gone from local to national star after winning the Nike Cross Nationals and Gatorade’s national girls’ cross country runner of the year award ... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Girls flag football faces critical vote to become CHSAA sanctioned | After two years of explosive growth as a pilot program in Colorado, girls flag football is at a critical juncture.
The sport will either become sanctioned at Tuesday’s CHSAA Legislative Council meeting or it will be voted down, in part over... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Boulder Valley, Adams 12 differing mask policies leave Broomfield students split | Editor’s note: After this article was published the city and county of Broomfield published a new mask mandate for students between ages 2 and 11 and Adams 12 announced it would mandate masks for students from preschool to sixth grade.
With... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | SVVSD hopes to move to hybrid learning model in October | The St. Vrain Valley School District is planning to move to a hybrid of in-person and online learning starting in October, if it’s supported by health data, Superintendent Don Haddad said at Wednesday’s school board meeting.
The district st... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Federal waivers allow local school districts to provide free meals to all | The Boulder Valley, St. Vrain Valley and Adams 12 school districts now can provide free meals to all children under 18 after the USDA this week extended food distribution waivers through the end of the year.
Before the waivers were extended... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | BVSD, SVVSD, Adams 12 offering school year food distribution | The Boulder Valley, St. Vrain Valley and Adams 12 school districts are offering meal distribution during the school year while students are learning remotely, though the rules are different than the emergency food distribution during the su... |
| Aug 15, 2020 | As school year starts online only because of coronavirus pandemic, parents look for solutions | Kati Maharry, mom to an incoming Emerald Elementary first-grader, initially panicked when the Boulder Valley School District switched to online only for the start of the school year.
She and her husband both work, but her daughter, Mia, is ... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Adams 12 board of education approves superintendent plan for fall | Adams 12 Five Star School District students will return to a virtual classroom starting Aug. 27.
The District’s Board of Education unanimously approved the superintendent’s recommended plan for the start of the school year, which included t... |
| May 10, 2020 | Summer camps, if they open, moving to small groups, virtual options | Boulder’s Alicen Kandt said her initial plans for the summer for her 5 year old and 8 year old included camps, vacation and occasional help from grandparents.
Now, she said, the camps she signed up for are “playing it by ear,” but most like... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | BVSD, SVVSD nix Zoom as option for teachers to connect to students | Some Boulder Valley teachers scrambled last week to find alternatives to easy-to-use Zoom to connect with students after the school district made the videoconferencing app off limits for use in remote learning.
The district didn’t initially... |
| Apr 3, 2020 | Adams 12 announces there will be no in-person learning through end of school year in response to coronavirus | Two days after Gov. Jared Polis extended the statewide in-person school closure through April 30 as part of the state’s strategy to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, Adams 12 Five Star Schools on Friday announced schools will stay clo... |
| Mar 29, 2020 | Boulder County school districts ramp up for remote learning during coronavirus closures | Area school districts are providing specifics to families as they get ready to start remote learning this week.
After two weeks of being closed, Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley students move to remote learning Monday, while Adams 12 stu... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Broomfield business offers tech help to teachers as lessons go virtual because of coronavirus | Code Blue Computing, a Broomfield IT consulting company, is offering teachers free services as they prepare for distance learning.
With “bumps in the road” expected as teachers deliver their lessons from home after the state ordered schools... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | SVVSD, Adams 12 change food distribution schedule after snowstorm forecast | Both the St. Vrain Valley and Adams 12 school districts are changing their grab-and-go food distribution schedules because of a spring snowstorm forecast for Thursday.
Neither district will provide meals at their pickup locations that day. ... |
| Mar 12, 2020 | St. Vrain Valley, Boulder Valley, Adams 12 close schools | The St. Vrain Valley and Boulder Valley school districts and Dawson School announced late Thursday that they are closing all schools, effective Friday, in response to the spread of the coronavirus.
“Late this afternoon, we were informed by ... |
| Jan 28, 2020 | Adams 12 school district, communities respond to recent youth suicides | Five students from Adams 12 schools, including one in Broomfield, have died in the past month and a half.
In a letter sent Friday to families, Superintendent Chris Gdowski said the children range in age from sixth grade to 10th grade and at... |