By Quentin Young | editor
“The GEO Group has not complied with the public health order or provided the required information. While statements that there are no active or suspected (tuberculosis) cases may be reassuring, they are not a substitute for compliance.”
— Hope Shuler, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment spokesperson
The sign outside the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Oct. 5, 2020. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
The private company that runs Colorado’s only immigration detention center missed a compliance deadline set by the state’s health department to provide information about a recent tuberculosis case in the Aurora facility. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a public health order on the issue Thursday and gave The GEO Group until Monday to respond. GEO did not. State law has long required that public health officials investigate confirmed active tuberculosis cases. GEO, which operates the detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, first shared the laboratory-confirmed case with state and county officials June 22.
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months. (Photo by Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat)
Controversial group that opened ‘Colorado’s first public Christian school’ will close after 13 years
By Ann Schimke
An education group that last year authorized “Colorado’s first public Christian school” soon will dissolve, following a Monday night vote by a key member institution. The school board in School District 49 unanimously approved the dissolution of Education reEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Educational Services, or ERBOCES. After 13 years of existence, ERBOCES leaves a legacy of school choice advocacy and a long string of controversies, as Chalkbeat Colorado reports.
Members of the Colorado House of Representatives work on the final day of the 2026 legislative session, May 13, at the Colorado Capitol in Denver. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
COMMENTARY
By Ian Zuckerman
Ordinarily, a major cut to need-based Colorado Work-Study would require advance public notice, expert testimony, and dedicated committee debate before lawmakers. It also would have forced the legislators who favored sacrificing need-based student aid to defend their priorities in an open debate. Instead, state lawmakers opted to exploit a procedural loophole stripping students of aid in a late-stage amendment appended without public notice or dedicated committee debate. Low-income Colorado college students at private universities found themselves stripped of the support they relied on, left to absorb the blow in silence.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
| By Lindsey Toomer
Commentary: A Colorado jail hasn’t allowed in‑person visits in nearly 20 years | By Jillian Turanovic and Melinda Tasca
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