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Amid national school walkouts, Denver students opt for low-key “Peace March”...
Dozens of students in Boulder-area schools walked out Friday, while most in the state stayed in class or participated in low-key, meaningful activities to mark the 19th anniversary of the Columbine...
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“Imploding”: Lawsuits. Fundraising troubles. Trailer-park brawls. Has the...
By Terrence Mccoy, The Washington Post Eight months after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia ended in the death of a counterprotester, the loose collection of disaffected young...
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A surge of protest unlike any in decades, but why now?
She was the face of mass protest, but long ago lost her faith in protesting. Then, last year, hundreds of thousands of women set out to march on Washington, and Jan Rose Kasmir knew she had to join...
View ArticleIn travel ban case, Supreme Court considers “the president” vs. “this president”
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s final oral argument of the term will be one of its most important and potentially far-reaching, an examination of the president’s authority to protect the country by...
View ArticleRepublican lawmakers want to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking, with...
Two Republican state lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking and make it so they would face firing, fines or even jail time if they do so anyway. Senate...
View ArticleThese Colorado school districts are canceling classes for teacher protests...
Thousands of Colorado teachers are expected to descend on the state Capitol on Thursday and Friday to call on lawmakers to make a long-term commitment to increasing K-12 education funding. These...
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Poll: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises
WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly believe teachers don’t make enough money, and half say they’d support paying higher taxes to give educators a raise. The findings of the new poll from The...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about why Colorado teachers are walking out of classes...
Teachers are normally at the front of the classroom, scribbling on the board. Or monitoring students while they take tests. Sometimes they’re hunched over their desks grading with a tell-tale red pen....
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Boulder police made “tactical decision” to let demonstrators break city gun...
It’s illegal in Boulder to openly carry a firearm unless it’s held in a “carrying case” — a holster for a handgun, for example, or something larger and easily recognizable in the case of a larger...
View ArticleFacebook finally explains why it bans some content, in 27 pages
SAN FRANCISCO – Among the most challenging issues for Facebook is its role as the policeman for the free expression of its 2 billion users. Now the social network is opening up about its...
View ArticleThousands of Colorado teachers expected to march to the state Capitol on...
The first wave hits Thursday, followed by a bigger one Friday. In all, thousands of teachers from mostly Front Range school districts are expected to march to the state Capitol on both days to demand...
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Colorado teachers begin two days of protest, chanting “Stand up and fight!”
Thousands of teachers from the Jefferson and Douglas County school districts yelled, sang, vented and even partied a bit at a rally at the state Capitol on Thursday, the first of two aimed at boosting...
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The Spot newsletter: Who’s on the 2018 ballot anyway?, regulating the sale of...
Welcome back to The Spot, where The Denver Post’s politics team captures what’s happening this week — from the Colorado legislature to Denver city hall, with a stop through the halls of Congress in...
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Colorado teachers rally for a second day at the state Capitol to demand...
A sea of red shirts, waving signs and banners spread out around the state Capitol on Friday as thousands of Colorado teachers and their supporters rallied in support of increased state funding for...
View ArticleResponses to teacher walkouts and protests over better pay (five letters)
Re: “Republican lawmakers want to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking, with potential fines and jail time for violators,” April 23 news article Across the country public school teacher are...
View ArticleThe Snowflake Revolution
For the past several years, social critics as well as some members of higher education communities have been quick to label students as “coddled” or part of a “snowflake” generation. This narrative has...
View ArticleTeachers from Colorado’s smallest, rural school districts also sound off at...
Tucked inside Friday’s large education-funding rally at the state Capitol — dominated by teachers from Colorado’s largest school districts — were educators from smaller towns and districts who face...
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Colorado teachers won’t be barred from striking – or face fines or jail time...
The Republican state senator who brought a bill seeking to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking by threatening firings, fines or even jail time said Monday he will kill his own measure, citing...
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A quiet culprit behind teacher protests in Colorado and across U.S.? The...
The loudest rallying cries from Colorado teachers protesting for more education dollars were about dwindling paychecks that are steadily losing ground to the state’s rising cost of living. Teachers...
View ArticleUnsigned safety Eric Reid files collusion grievance against NFL
NEW YORK — The NFL players’ union says former San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid filed a grievance against the league, alleging that he remains unsigned as a result of collusion by owners. Reid, a...
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