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An hour before students arrived at Manual High School, eight teachers huddled in a classroom to discuss the students they advise through the wild weeds of life at an urban high school.   Teachers focused on student test scores, attendance ... read more

The financial uncertainty on Wall Street is hitting home for hundreds of Colorado school districts, cities and other local governments.  No one is panicking yet - or even seriously worried - because the money that 360 local governments have ... read more

Denver Public Schools' pension plan was pulled into the financial crisis on Wall Street this week when a dearth of buyers at a bond sale cost the fund "hundreds of thousands" of dollars in increased interest payments. The DPS fund has reserves to ... read more

Colorado Senate President Peter Groff is heading a statewide effort to improve school choices for low-income families, an initiative that could launch as many as 100 new small schools over the next decade. Groff, a Denver Democrat who has been ... read more

Every two weeks since he took the job as North High School principal, Ed Salem calls a meeting with each class of students. The third meeting of the year was Tuesday and juniors and seniors filed into the auditorium just after 9 a.m. They chattered ... read more

A charter school is in breach of contract with Denver Public Schools for using $60,000 of designated money to set up a separate charter school in another part of the metro area. Denver's Southwest Early College High School used the money to pay ... read more

Lonnie Porter and Chauncey Billups sure do love to win a basketball game. Yet what the dean of Colorado's collegiate basketball coaches and the NBA All-Star Detroit Piston consider their greatest victory isn't a game at all. It's something that ... read more

When it comes to learning, school kids aren't that much different from pro football players, Denver Broncos cornerback Dre Bly told some students Tuesday. "You have to listen to your teacher. I'm a grown man, but I have a teacher - that's my coach," ... read more

If there is controversy in the $454 million bond issue for Denver Public Schools, it is in northwest Denver and the planned reconstruction of North High School. The district wants to use $34 million to remodel the original 1911 school building and ... read more

Freshman Arturo Medrano paused before entering a first-floor bathroom at East High School - braving the ever-present odor that brings to mind a campground privvy or an old portable toilet. "They stink," Medrano said of the school's bathrooms. "They ... read more