Colorado schools may require temperature checks, mix of in-person and online classes for fall...

The Denver Post (Education) 5/26 3:41P Tiney Ricciardi

The Colorado Department of Education released new guidance Tuesday to help school districts prepare to reopen for the fall semester amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but stopped short of confirming in-person classes will happen. “Our goal… is...

Why Colorado school districts are serving fewer meals during coronavirus closures

The Denver Post (Education) 5/9 2:00A Chalkbeat Colorado

By Erica Meltzer, Yesenia Robles, and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee One of the first considerations for any school district thinking about closing school, even for a single snow day is: How will children eat? As schools across Colorado closed in March...

Denver-metro student lunch program reshaped by coronavirus shutdown of schools

The Denver Post (Education) 5/2 2:00A Kieran Nicholson

A local student meal program that typically serves kids at schools has reshaped its service in response to school shutdowns because of the coronavirus. My Kid s Lunch, based out of Arvada, is serving...

“It’s not going very well:” The Class of 2020 searches for a job amid a pandemic that has crippled...

The Denver Post (Education) 4/19 2:00A Megan Webber

This May, Rishab Kharidhi will be one of the 6,120 students receiving a diploma from the University of Colorado Boulder. He, along with thousands more graduating from the state s colleges and universities, spent hundreds of hours and thousands of...

Colorado teachers of color push for diversifying educator ranks

The Denver Post (Education) 4/13 2:00A Yesenia Robles

At the start of one semester, Leilani Gomez, a high school senior in Aurora, was shocked when her white teacher introduced herself. “She told us we had to respect her, because we were receiving an opportunity to learn from her, and said a lot of...

Coronavirus forces some Colorado cities to try virtual democracy

The Denver Post (Education) 4/6 2:00A John Aguilar

As state officials close countless public gathering places to slow the spread of the coronavirus, cities and towns across Colorado are leveraging the latest technology to continue doing their civic...

Schools across Denver area will remain closed rest of academic year due to coronavirus

The Denver Post (Education) 4/3 8:09A Elizabeth Hernandez

Students across the Denver region will not return to their classrooms for the remainder of the academic year as public school districts keep their buildings closed in a continued effort to slow the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus....

Colorado teachers eager for more mental health resources to help students

The Denver Post (Education) 3/15 2:00A Saja Hindi

When Kristy Skarphol started teaching 21 years ago, her students were concerned with friendships and dating, as teens always have been, but extreme mental health problems seemed like a rarity. In the past dozen years, though, Skarphol, who now...

As schools close, Colorado prepares to shift coronavirus response to focus on softening impacts

The Denver Post (Education) 3/13 2:00A Jessica Seaman, Shelly Bradbury

As state health officials warned the new coronavirus could linger in Colorado for months, major Denver-area school districts began announcing closures on Thursday in an effort to slow the spread of...

Denver to close all public schools for three weeks to fight spread of coronavirus

The Denver Post (Education) 3/12 3:06P Elizabeth Hernandez, Kieran Nich

Denver Public Schools will close all schools in the state s largest district beginning Monday through April 6 to fight the spread of the new coronavirus, district officials said Thursday night. School will take place as scheduled Friday, but DPS...

As Colorado college students go hungry, state encourages them to apply for SNAP benefits

The Denver Post (Education) 3/8 2:00A Elizabeth Hernandez

Kiara Galvan s constant calculations about where her next meal would come from no longer stand in the way of the 20-year-old s goal of becoming a social worker. The Metropolitan State University of...