5+ hour, 21+ min ago  (775+ words) Jefferson County homeowners are paying about 40 to 55 percent more in property taxes than five years ago. But thanks to Colorado's school funding formula, almost none of that increase has reached the Jeffco school district. The median Jefferson County homeowner now…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (747+ words) With summer break finally arriving for children all over the metro area, parents are going to be looking for active and enriching ways to spend some time. The newly updated Adventure Forest at the Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (348+ words) A Golden High School graduate hugs their family members after the May 22 ceremony at Marv Kay Stadium. Golden High School graduates, who were formerly on the spirit and cheer teams, lead their fellow graduates in one final hand jive during…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (570+ words) Tracy Dorland Credit: Jeffco Public Schools Jeffco Public Schools Superintendent Tracy Dorland will resign July 5 to take a new job, ending a five-year tenure that began in the middle of the pandemic and spanned some of the district's most consequential…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (943+ words) Team 60 members show off the self-articulating legs they installed on a Moto Demption motorcycle during Colorado School of Mines' Capstone Design Showcase on April 30. The self-articulating legs allow the adaptive motorcycle to stop on its own, when it previously needed…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1156+ words) A high school student checks his phone in a school hallway. A draft Jefferson County Public Schools policy would require students to keep phones turned off and stored away during instructional time. When her daughter's school went into lockdown on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (814+ words) Welchester Elementary School community members line up for a past year's Soar 5 K. The school is hosting this year's race at 8 a. m. April 25, complete with free activities for children. Two years ago, when Golden-area Welchester Elementary School started the Soar 5 K fundraiser…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1390+ words) Sarah Hawkins, PTA president of Shelton Elementary, addresses the Jefferson County school board during public comment March 12, 2026. Erika Knaub has spent years helping Edgewater Elementary's most vulnerable students feel safe enough to learn. Many of them are newcomers who arrived…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (774+ words) Jeffco Public Schools' administration building in Golden. The district has rejected the terms of a federal civil rights finding over its transgender student policies and is negotiating with the Office for Civil Rights under a 90-day window that runs to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (827+ words) Zander Kashub, president of the Jeffco Education Support Professionals Association, addresses the Jefferson County Board of Education on March 12, 2026, alleging Superintendent Tracy Dorland told a private advisory subcommittee she expected the district's mill levy override to fail in November. On…...