These are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2024 CMAS tests

The Denver Post (Education) 8/29 7:00A Jessica Seaman

Students at Polaris Elementary in Denver continue to earn the highest scores on the annual Colorado Measures of Academic Success test, according to data released by the Colorado Department of Education on Thursday. As it did last year , the...

More Colorado students’ math and literacy scores surpass pre-pandemic levels

The Denver Post (Education) 8/20 5:30A Jessica Seaman

Test scores among Colorado’s elementary and middle-school students continue to recover since schools temporarily shuttered in 2020, with this spring s literacy and math scores reaching and in some cases surpassing pre-pandemic levels, according...

CU’s School of Medicine is first to move to new model for training doctors

The Denver Post (Education) 7/29 2:00A Meg Wingerter

The University of Colorado s School of Medicine is the first in the country to shift entirely to a new way of training doctors, with the hope of producing graduates who more naturally see patients as...

Colorado Mesa University’s leaders took a risk to combat FAFSA delays. They lost money — but...

The Denver Post (Education) 7/28 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

The leaders of Colorado Mesa University proposed a financial gamble at the beginning of the year. They d gathered for a January board meeting to discuss how the Grand Junction university, which...

Colorado schools got nearly $2 billion in COVID aid. Now the money is ending and districts face...

The Denver Post (Education) 7/1 2:00A Jessica Seaman

Nearly $2 billion in federal aid flowed into Colorado school districts’ coffers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and, with that money, they expanded tutoring for children, started after-school and summer programs and increased mental...