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Monday, December 17, 2012  The Colorado Department of Higher Education is considering changes to the way it allocates $70 million for need-based college grants.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011  Denver Public Schools is expecting a $25 million drop in state aid, but plans to pump $10 million more into schools next year and add as many as 150 teaching positions.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011  President Barack Obama is using a Colorado school as an example of what education reform can do.

Saturday, May 29, 2010  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he is hopeful the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be cleaned up and that the coast will be restored to a condition better than it was before the disaster. Salazar made the remarks Saturday to students graduating from the Denver School of Science and Technology.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010  On Thursday, Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Jefferson County will announce what it says is a "large financial pledge" to the school. Company officials say it will also make a five-year commitment of volunteer support from Lockheed Martin's 4,300 Colorado-based employees, half of whom are engineers or scientists.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010  The White House said Wednesday that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will speak at the school's commencement ceremony May 29.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010  Obama's choice was announced on Tuesday. Schools in Cincinnati and Denver also were competing.

Friday, April 30, 2010  The student was taken to Swedish Medical Center and was listed in critical condition. The student attends Westgate Elementary in Jefferson County.

Friday, April 30, 2010  Denver School of Science and Technology may win the challenge and have President Obama as its commencement speaker.

Sunday, April 25, 2010  The White House says people can start voting at 6 a.m. Monday for one of six schools named as finalists, including the Denver School of Science & Technology. People can see and rate three-minute videos and short essays from each school at http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/Commencement.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010  The Shortline Automotive dealership in suburban Denver gave David Benke a 2010 Subaru Outback on Tuesday. Benke is credited with knocking down Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood outside Deer Creek Middle School after two students were shot and wounded Feb. 23.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  Colorado's top law-enforcement officer says the response to the shootings at suburban Denver school shows that training for teachers, students and police has paid off.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010  Investigators say a man suspected of shooting and wounding two students outside a suburban Denver school had entered and left the building on his own earlier that day, without being told by school officials to go.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010  The mother of a 6-year-old, whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary, is suing the school system.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010  Jennifer Carter was sentenced to probation on a deferred sentence of 18 months. The 46-year-old secretary was charged after taping an unruly elementary student's hands and mouth with masking tape last October.