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Search your school’s 2024 CMAS scores

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:00:09 +0000

The Colorado Department of Education released CMAS scores for Colorado schools for the 2023-24 school year. Use this database to see how students in your school scored.

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2024 Paris Olympics event schedule by day, sport and more

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:13:58 +0000

Events at the Paris Olympics are underway. Use the interactive schedule to filter and search all the events by sport, date and more.

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How each Colorado school performed on CMAS tests

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:00:41 +0000

Colorado students’ performance in math and literacy is starting to rebound to levels not seen since before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools three years ago, according to new data released by the state Department of Education Thursday.

Read the full story: Colorado test scores improve, hinting at a pandemic recovery

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See how each school in Colorado performed on CMAS tests

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:00:12 +0000

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Search Colorado water providers’ PFAS levels

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:00:22 +0000

More than a hundred drinking water sources across Colorado — ranging from cities and counties to elementary schools and campgrounds — contain what are now considered to be potentially hazardous levels of PFAS, toxic “forever chemicals” linked to a slew of health problems, data from 2020 shows.

Read Conrad Swanson’s full story, “No safe level”: A lot of Colorado drinking water could contain potentially hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” under new EPA standard

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Can you afford to buy a house? Try this income and home price calculator.

Tue, 24 May 2022 12:00:17 +0000

How much money do you need to make to afford the house you’re eyeing?

The Denver Post took a calculator created by University of Denver real estate professor Jeff Engelstad and made it accessible so you can figure out what sort of income you need to land that elusive house.

Engelstad uses a similar calculation when teaching his real estate students about homebuying.

Input the information you know and see whether your housing dreams align with your financial reality.

For more information about first-time homebuying in metro Denver, here’s a story in which The Post followed first-time homebuyers and talked to experts in the field: The ins, outs and ughs of first-time homebuying in Denver.

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The Big Payout: A visual look at where Colorado’s nearly $66 billion in federal pandemic aid went

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:00:57 +0000

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 has called for a strike at Denver area King Soopers stores where contracts have expired, which involves about 8,400 workers and 68 stores. Read the story: King Soopers workers go on strike across Denver area

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Marshall fire: Map of destroyed or damaged homes and businesses

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:48:08 +0000

MAP: Marshall fire perimeter shows 6,000 acres burned

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:54:38 +0000

Click here to see a map of the destroyed and damaged properties.

Street map

MORE MARSHALL FIRE COVERAGE

Marshall fire may have destroyed 1,000 homes in Boulder County, officials say
How to help those impacted by the wildfires
Colorado wildfires live blog: Marshall fire updates
PHOTOS: Marshall fire burns in Boulder County, damaging hundreds of homes

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