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This week, a parent in Douglas County challenged four books with gay and 鈥渁lternative鈥� themes. The Greeley Board of Education also recently stood up to parent challenges on four other books. KUNC culture commentator Peter Moore examines the value of books in schools in an era when teachers and librarians have become de facto bookshelf defenders.

The Colorado Department of Education released student assessment data this week for the 2022-2023 academic year. It shows that student performance is still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels despite meager gains. Significant disparities based on gender, race, wealth and disability also remain.

After more than five decades, the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation will be getting a new school.

Experts are hopeful a new state law will lead more facility schools to open. Meanwhile, school districts are creating their own programs, and creative and skilled educators are finding ways to meet students鈥� needs in traditional classrooms.

The special schools have no central oversight and instead are the responsibility of multiple state agencies. A new law aims to increase accountability.

The budget for K-12 education in Colorado is set to expand considerably for the upcoming school year. ChalkBeat Colorado's Higher Education and Legislative Matters Reporter Jason Gonzales joined KUNC to make sense of the school budget plan.

Two classrooms in Colorado are learning about water by connecting pen pals between Basalt and Aurora.

An environmental group recently released its grades for how states are handling lead contamination in school drinking water 鈥� and half of the states in the Mountain West states are failing.

Officials across the Mountain West are looking for ways to recruit and retain more teachers in local schools. While salary changes are a large part of discussions, low pay isn鈥檛 the only thing contributing to this critical labor shortage.

The study by Brown University found that the shorter school week could hurt the housing market, cause a decline in student achievement, and decrease teacher and staff numbers.