More than 244,000 Colorado students frequently missed school last year

The Denver Post (Education) 8/27 10:22A Jessica Seaman

More than 244,620 Colorado students missed a significant amount of school during the 2024-25 academic year, a sign that attendance and chronic absenteeism rates have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels five years after COVID-19 initially...

Aurora’s plan to close two library branches this fall will create a neighborhood void for loyal...

The Denver Post (Education) 8/25 2:00A John Aguilar

Aurora s Chambers Plaza Library reopened less than three years ago to great fanfare after a decade-plus closure. But now the modest branch at the edge of a strip mall on East Colfax Avenue will close...

As Douglas County’s home-rule election gets underway, the battle is already red hot. Here’s what’s...

The Denver Post (Education) 6/8 2:00A John Aguilar

Douglas County is trying to do something no other Colorado county has done in nearly 50 years adopt home-rule authority that would give the conservative bastion south of Denver more autonomy and...