Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado

As the program grows, students are gaining much more than English lessons.

Education Commissioner Susana Córdova said the ruling means improvement efforts in the district can continue “without the risk of being derailed by pending litigation.”

Adams 14 was the first school district in the state to be ordered to reorganize. Colorado Education Commissioner Susana Córdova said this week there was little point in continuing that process.

A recent report from a group of northeastern Colorado school districts that received a state grant to improve diversity in advanced courses similarly found that many teachers underestimated students’ abilities.

Two outside investigations reached conflicting conclusions about whether board members forced out former superintendent Rico Munn. Munn claims two board members harassed him and called his Blackness into question.

Rico Munn stepped down as Aurora’s superintendent at the end of December after board members did not want to renew his contract. He then filed a discrimination complaint against the school board.

English language learners are among the children who could most benefit from preschool, so the state has made these students eligible for additional free preschool hours.

A model that Judi’s House developed to estimate the number of children in Colorado who will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 went from 1 in 18 children in 2018 to 1 in 14 children in 2022.

A Colorado judge has dismissed Adams 14’s lawsuit challenging a State Board of Education order to reorganize the district.

In Colorado, school board members serve as volunteers, and have not been allowed to be compensated for their time. But a law passed in April changed that.

As more than 70 percent of Colorado students prepare to be out of school for at least two weeks as part of a regional effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, school districts are taking different approaches.