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...

Colorado brainiacs breeze through first 2 rounds at Scripps National Spelling Bee

The Denver Post (Education) 5/27 6:14A Elizabeth Hernandez

The two brainiacs representing Colorado at the Scripps National Spelling Bee outside Washington, D.C., this week advanced through the first and second rounds of the competition Tuesday morning. Vedanth Ved Raju a seventh-grader from Aurora Quest...

Denver has sent the most champions to the Scripps National Spelling Bee

The Denver Post (Education) 5/26 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee . Before then, the Scripps Bee pronouncers who bestowed tricky words on...