Do Black students matter to school board members? Apparently not if you’re a school board member backed by the teachers union, if a recent charter school battle in Denver is any indication. At issue was a proposed charter school in Denver named 5280 Freedom School,...
Which of the following do you think was the funding priority of the Democratic majority for the recently completed legislative session in Colorado: yet another study on bees or grants for schools to help kids learn math? If you guessed the bees, you must have the...
This piece was also co-written by Derrell Bradford, President of 50CAN. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began as a shock to our lives in 2020 and continues to affect everything we do as a nation, changed the fabric and rituals of daily life across this country. Nowhere...
We’ve failed our children for far too long. The numbers are so astonishing it’s hard to even process what this means for our students and our society as a whole. Statewide, over three quarters (76%) of sixth graders are behind grade level in math. Over 60% of third...
