Erica Breunlin ☀️
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Education reporter at @ColoradoSun☀️BFFs with a beagle from AR. Full of curiosity, coffee and deadline-driven anxiety. Tell me your story and the moral of it.
Denver, CO
Joined August 2011
RT @larryryckman: Great to see @fishnette on CNN tonight talking about press freedom and democracy. The background: .
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Many CO students are rethinking college with soaring costs and widespread student loan debt. This education park in the works near Colorado Springs would offer a different kind of campus where they could explore vocational training while in high school.
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As student interest surges in careers that don’t require a college degree, superintendents want to build an education park where they can explore vocational training and job certifications
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CO saw more high schoolers graduate in 2023 than in 2022, with the state experiencing one of the biggest boosts to its grad rate in recent years, while fewer students dropped out. Check out grad/dropout rates in your district with this @TheKeystoneCtr map:
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Both the state’s graduation and dropout rates improved in 2023, but significant gaps remain for students of color and other kids facing additional challenges, including those living in poverty
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Little more than a week before Claudia Perez moved to Eagle County f/ Colombia to begin teaching Spanish to 2nd graders last year, she had no idea where she was going to live. It's a growing problem for teachers. 2 rural districts are now tackling housing:
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Some Colorado mountain school districts anticipate needing to house all teachers and staff within the next decade as costs soar.
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One big takeaway from the JBC's review of.@GovofCO's budget proposal: rising concern about what programs CO can afford in the future, as federal pandemic relief dollars dry up and lawmakers try to fully fund school finance obligations. @brianeason reports:
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Under one economic forecast, the state may have to cut spending or dip into the reserves to balance this year’s budget.
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Colorado students are coping with a mental health crisis and a few dozen of them have turned to art to depict the pain — and the beauty — within their own struggles. Their work will hang in a special exhibit at @mcadenver until Dec. 10.
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The work of 35 young artists from across the state will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art until Dec. 10
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A must-read on 80 Venezuelan migrants sleeping below a bridge in Carbondale and facing increasingly brutal temperatures as winter approaches, via @JenBrownColo @ColoradoSun.
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As winter approaches, nonprofits and city leaders in the mountain town outside Aspen are trying to find a longer-term solution for shelter
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RT @Katielangford35: The body of a Pagosa Springs man missing since August was found in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest on Oct. 30 with….
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The body of a Pagosa Springs man missing since August was found in the San Juan National Forest on Oct. 30 with his Jack Russell Terrier, Finney, still alive and by his side.
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How is your school performing in math/ELA? How has enrollment changed in recent years? What do graduation rates look like? Find the answers to these ?s and many others in these series of interactive maps created by @TheKeystoneCtr for @ColoradoSun #tellEWA.
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The Colorado Sun partnered with Keystone Policy Center to create a series of maps exploring testing data for students across the state.
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From Monday: Rates of chronic absenteeism and dropouts have spiked in CO schools. Students drop out for many reasons. Some work to help their families. Others struggle to catch up in class once behind. What will keep kids in school?. For one, relationships.
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RT @ColoradoSun: Colorado voters approve sending millions more dollars to the state’s new universal preschool program ..
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Proposition II, approved Tuesday, lets the state keep and spend all the revenue collected through Colorado’s increased tobacco, nicotine taxes
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RT @danacoffield: RESULTS -->> It will be interesting to see what becomes of American Birthright Standards after this sweep of the Woodland….
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“This language is born in you. It is in you at this moment. We need to somehow unpack it and unfold it and release it.". A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom #edcolo
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Elfreida Begay began teaching the Navajo language at Durango High School, helping her Indigenous students reclaim their culture and language.
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RT @ColoradoSun: The Colorado governor’s $38B budget proposal for the 2024-25 fiscal year would fully fund K-12 education for the first tim….
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The Colorado governor’s $38B budget proposal for 2024-25 would fully fund K-12 education for the first time since the Great Recession.
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“Having a place such as school where that person can feel that they are a human being and feel that they are who they are, that is vital to the life of anyone.” CO kids want a law allowing minors to use preferred names/pronouns in school, via @JenBrownColo
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A draft bill would create a policy that would require Colorado school districts to let transgender students use nonlegal names and pronouns.
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This @meltzere story on an @Adams12 school board candidate who harassed the supt and a teacher over anti-racist training courses for educators and the district's focus on equity is a sharp example of the political undercurrent of school board elections.
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Ben Helgeson says he has some regrets about how he expressed himself, but he still sees critical race theory as a serious threat to students and America.
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Really excited to interview @DashkaSlater this evening about her book, "Accountable," which traces a shocking string of events stemming f/ a racist social media account created by a CA teen. I couldn't put this book down — it's powerful, enraging and yet somehow still hopeful.
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