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A new report from the Keystone Policy Center highlights the shortage of affordable housing for Colorado educators and district staff, with many teachers spending over 40% of their income on housing.

A new report argues that clear answers are unavailable because of missing or incomplete data.

The Catch Up is your weekly way to get all the headlines and stories from KUNC in one place.

The 2025 school year is about to get underway. Here's when classes resume in your local school district.

A new graduation law means every Colorado teen must take a personal finance class, but what do they really need to know about money today?

Students in rural northwestern Colorado, where ranching and hunting are a way of life, are learning the mechanics of processing meat to help the ag industry. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Erica Breunlin and the read the Colorado Sun story at the link below.

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a room, and restraint, which means physically restraining a student. But a loophole that legislators and advocates say was unintentional has meant that there is almost no public data about seclusion, while restraint data is more readily available.

An executive order has ended a policy that prevented federal immigration officials from making arrests at so-called “sensitive” locations like schools and churches. Now, some Colorado schools are working to better protect their students from potential immigration raids.

Since the pandemic, Colorado teachers say many of their students don’t have as much resilience to push through tough challenges in the classroom. It’s a concept they refer to as grit. So some educators are using strategies to help build back a sense of determination in their students. We hear about those tactics on today’s In The NoCo.