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| 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 29, 2026 | Colorado school districts asking voters to OK millions in mill levy overrides this November | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
More than a dozen Colorado school districts, including Denver Public Schools, will ask voters this November to approve mill levy overrides — a sign of how crucial such ballot measures have become i... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Metro Denver schools have new warning for students: Watch out for bears | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Schools across Denver’s suburbs have been forced to issue a new type of warning to students and parents arriving on their campuses in recent weeks: Watch out for bears.
Bears are common in Colorado... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | The Trump administration says it’s investigating these Colorado institutions. Here’s what’s really happening. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, his administration has announced a flurry of investigations into Democratic-led states and their institutions.
Colorado has... |
| 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... |
| Mar 22, 2026 | Colorado is proposing major changes to autism therapy — and families are worried | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Sabrina Ortengren had almost no hope when she and her husband Jay sat down with an autism therapy provider in Evergreen in 2022.
All of the specialized schools in their home state of Virginia had d... |
| Jan 17, 2026 | Broomfield, Erie and Monarch wrestlers shine at Top of the Rockies | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
LAFAYETTE — Coming into the week ahead of the Top of the Rockies wrestling tournament, Broomfield’s Nick Penfold had more than proven his strength among all of the Class 5A 157-pound competitors.
H... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Colorado public school enrollment sees biggest drop since 2020 as graduation rate continues to improve | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s public schools recorded their lowest dropout rate ever during the last academic year as four-year graduation rates surpassed a 10-year high, according to new state data. Yet these improv... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Nearly 100,000 lose power amid severe wind on the Front Range; restoration could take ‘up to several days’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
More than 100,000 Colorado homes and businesses lost power on Friday as a severe windstorm hit the Front Range mountains and foothills with 112 mph gusts, snarling transportation on highways and at... |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Peak to Peak’s Vivaan Bhardwaj, Shreyas Sundaresan finish state tennis runners-up | All season long, Peak to Peak boys tennis has been a force in Class 4A. On Saturday, down at Pueblo City Park, its run came to an end when Vivaan Bhardwaj and Shreyas Sundaresan, and No. 1 and 2 singles, both fell in their respective state ... |
| Sep 28, 2025 | As kids like the Evergreen High School shooter sink into violent online extremism, what can parents do? | Social media accounts tied to the 16-year-old who shot two classmates at Evergreen High School were littered with references to white supremacy, antisemitism and other mass shootings — signs the teen had been radicalized online before his a... |
| Sep 20, 2025 | Evergreen High School releases schedule for first week after shooting | Evergreen High School staff and students will start a gradual return to work and classes beginning Monday, more than a week after a shooting at the school.
Staff members will return to school Monday to prepare for the weeks ahead, Principal... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Increased security planned at Evergreen High School following Colorado school shooting | Classes are canceled this week at Evergreen High School after a student shot two of his schoolmates before turning the gun on himself last Wednesday.
Jefferson County officials have not yet confirmed when the high school will reopen, but sa... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | FBI investigated Evergreen High School shooter’s social media before attack, failed to identify him | The FBI in July began investigating social media accounts connected to the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School last week, but did not identify the boy or take any further action before the attack, the... |
| Sep 13, 2025 | Parent groups raised concerns about resource officers before Evergreen High School shooting | Two Evergreen High School parent groups raised concerns about the availability of school resource officers in the hours before Wednesday’s shooting that critically wounded two students, parents said Friday.
At a Tuesday night meeting of the... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | What we know so far about the Colorado high school shooting | A suspect is dead after shooting two other students at Evergreen High School, an incident that drew hundreds of law enforcement officers after a 911 call reporting an active shooter at around 12:24 p.m. Wednesday. Here’s what we know so far... |
| 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 24, 2025 | New law prompts Colorado schools to eye curbs on student cellphone use — including ‘bell-to-bell’ bans | The new law does not outright ban or restrict phones in classrooms or school buildings. Instead, it allows districts to decide whether to place limitations — if any — on phones and determine what possible restrictions might look like.
So fa... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Here are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2025 CMAS tests | Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter.
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| Aug 21, 2025 | Colorado students’ math, literacy scores largely reach or exceed pre-pandemic levels | More eighth-graders met or exceeded expectations in both English language arts (43.9%) and math (34.7%) than they did last year. But their scores remain below pre-pandemic levels in both subjects.
DPS, the state’s largest district, saw CMAS... |
| 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 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 1, 2024 | Education | Colorado schools got nearly $2 billion in COVID aid. Now the money is ending and districts face tough budget decisions. | DPS spent the aid money on summer programs to help address students’ learning losses from the pandemic. Money also went to other projects, such as improving and tracking air quality in schools.
“We tried to deploy the money in a way that wa... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Trevor Baskin ready to showcase hoops skills with CU Buffs | The extra season of eligibility granted by the NCAA for the 2020-21 COVID season has unleashed a number of previously unforeseen opportunities upon the game of college basketball.
Trevor Baskin’s story certainly is one of them.
A gangly and... |
| 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... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Rooney: CU Buffs 3 extra points (April 15, 2024) | BuffZone writer Pat Rooney discusses three topics surrounding CU Buffs athletics as spring recruiting speeds up in basketball and spring football continues. Staff void
Forging a path toward sustained competitiveness in the Big 12 Conference... |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Education | Housing is so expensive in Colorado that school districts are becoming landlords to attract teachers | Leaders in Colorado school districts are trying to solve a big problem: They want to attract and retain teachers, bus drivers and other educators, but the state’s high cost of living keeps outpacing employees’ wages even after administrator... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Jeffco and Douglas County students likely moving to remote learning soon | Update: Douglas County School District will go remote after Thanksgiving due to COVID-19 surge
Update: Jeffco Public Schools will send most students to remote learning by the end of November, citing COVID-19 surge
Administrators at Douglas ... |
| May 22, 2020 | Jeffco Public Schools’ fall reopening plan offers first detailed glimpse at what school could look like in 2020-21 | Come fall, Jeffco Public School students may head to their campuses on a scheduled rotation of in-person and remote learning to prevent too many kids and staff members congregating at once. Social distancing would be enforced during recess.... |
| Nov 26, 2019 | BVSD considering new civility policy | Boulder Valley School District is considering adding a policy on civility, mainly to give staff members an added layer of protection against threatening, bullying or abusive language from students or parents.
“We have to draw some boundarie... |