There are already rumblings of dissatisfaction with the the three finalists to become Denver’s next schools superintendent. But it isn’t exactly a plum job at this moment in time.

With more than $1.1 billion in stimulus dollars flowing into Colorado school districts over the next year, the big question is: will the students in greatest need of support get it, and in what form?

Three Denver Language School parents write about why language immersion education is important to their families. 

Coming from a school board member who consistently trumpets her commitment to community voice, House Bill 21-1295 reeks not only of pique at the state board but hypocrisy as well.

The hundreds of community members who rallied last week to support school innovation zones are right to worry that the school board will ignore their pleas.

Completing the FAFSA significantly increases the odds  students will continue their education beyond high school into a postsecondary education program of study. This fact is especially true among low-income students and students of color.

To continue the current, flawed approach to financial literacy education means maintaining economic inequities. All students, but especially  students of color and those not classified as having “high” social-economic status, need and deserve access to these courses. 

We are just in our first year, and yet the American Indian Academy of Denver (AIAD) is making history, providing an education that seemed unimaginable even 10 years ago.

It has been unsettling to our families and staff that until now, the conversation about our fate has been avoided in the Reimagining Montbello process. Our families are part of the Montbello community. 

These women, these brown women, mattered to me and made a difference in my educational journey. We should celebrate them this Women’s History Month for all of the lives they have touched.