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To boost enrollment after pandemic, Colorado community colleges turn to adult students

To boost enrollment after pandemic, Colorado community colleges turn to adult students

Enrollment across the community college system is down about 10 percent this year.
Longmont's Nextlight offers bigger discount on internet after new law goes into effect

Longmont's Nextlight offers bigger discount on internet after new law goes into effect

Federal funds allows income-qualified familes the ability to access the internet at lower rates.
Finding out how Colorado schools teach reading can be a wild goose chase. This bill could make it easier.

Finding out how Colorado schools teach reading can be a wild goose chase. This bill could make it easier.

A Colorado bill could make it easier for parents to learn how schools teach reading and spend funds for struggling readers
Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife

Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife

The wells dramatically increase water availability in the desert.
This lockdown wasn’t a drill. Here’s what the next four hours looked like in my classroom.

This lockdown wasn’t a drill. Here’s what the next four hours looked like in my classroom.

One teacher's experience of a lockdown
Putting out fires; local firefighters are prepared as 2021 fire season begins

Putting out fires; local firefighters are prepared as 2021 fire season begins

Dry conditions and low amounts of snow have firefighters concerned for worse fire season than last year
Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod suggest it was a moonlight predator

Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod suggest it was a moonlight predator

Two fossil species – Haplocheirus sollers and Shuvuuia deserti – likely had extremely good night vision.
Bill would give Colorado school districts more authority to reject charter schools

Bill would give Colorado school districts more authority to reject charter schools

Colorado legislature would grant school districts broad discretion to turn down charter school applications
Colorado and The Feds end their legal fight over policing and immigration

Colorado and The Feds end their legal fight over policing and immigration

The state is once again eligible for grant funds for public safety
117 Colorado nursing home with COVID outbreaks received fines and payments from the federal government

117 Colorado nursing home with COVID outbreaks received fines and payments from the federal government

The fines and bonuses all came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services