Education

New charges filed against Littleton bus aide, revealing more incidents of alleged abuse to nonverbal students

Prosecutors filed additional charges this week against a former Littleton Public Schools bus aide accused of beating two nonverbal students, revealing more incidents of alleged abuse on their way to and from school.

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Denver schools’ Super Alex Marrero uses NDAs to prevent employees from speaking out

Denver Public Schools โ€” under Superintendent Alex Marrero โ€” has offered severance packages to employees only if they are willing to sign a confidentiality agreement that prohibits them from speaking about their experiences in the district for three years after their employment.

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Colorado panel finalizes budget plan that boosts K-12, higher education and health care. Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s in it.

Coloradoโ€™s state budget panel early Friday morning approved a spending plan for next fiscal year that would invest heavily in state workers and medical services, eliminate Coloradoโ€™s K-12 funding shortfall and limit college tuition increases to 3% for in-state students.

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Proposed sweeping changes to Colorado charter schools could divide Democrats

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics A trio of state Democratic lawmakers is pushing a sweeping proposal to boost what they describe as accountability but which critics say flies in the face of local control and unfairly targets charter schools. Notably, the biggest pushback is likely to come from members of their own caucuses and

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