How did an out-of-state white guy win over a rural Colorado college with a dark, racist past? Ask...

The Denver Post (Education) 4/14 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Tom Stritikus, a white guy from out of state who talks a mile a minute, in the summer of 2018 took the helm of a rural southern Colorado college with a significant Native American student body and an...

English development teachers in Colorado feel overwhelmed amid influx of students new to the...

The Denver Post (Education) 3/22 2:00A Yesenia Robles

This school year has been overwhelming for teachers like Joel Mollman. As an English language development teacher at Hamilton Middle School in Denver, Mollman has had to take on more work to keep up with the growing number of students who need...

University of Colorado to consider banning concealed carry on all campuses

The Denver Post (Education) 3/20 5:11A Olivia Doak

The University of Colorado in April will discuss for the first time since 2012 imposing a ban on people carrying concealed weapons on its campuses. CU allows concealed carry on its campuses, making it an outlier among higher education...

No Denver kids made this year’s Colorado State Spelling Bee. “Bill’s kids” want to fix that in honor...

The Denver Post (Education) 3/15 6:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

A dormant dynasty is preparing to rise again. This year, not a single Denver Public Schools student qualified for the Colorado State Spelling Bee . Fourteen wordy kids from across the state gathered...

Whistleblower accuses Colorado Technical University of financial aid fraud in lawsuit

The Denver Post (Education) 1/23 8:25A Elizabeth Hernandez

A whistleblower is alleging for-profit college Colorado Technical University has made fraudulent claims for financial aid money while failing to meet federal requirements, denying students the education they were promised, according to a civil...

Colorado’s public school enrollment hits lowest level in a decade

The Denver Post (Education) 1/17 6:00A Jessica Seaman

Enrollment in Colorado’s public school districts has reached its lowest point in a decade as fewer children registered to attend the state’s schools last fall, continuing a multiyear decline through the pandemic that is in large part due to...