Erica Breunlin ☀️ (@ericabreunlin) 's Twitter Profile
Erica Breunlin ☀️

@ericabreunlin

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.

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Really excited to interview Deirdre Slater 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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This Erica Meltzer story on an Five Star Schools 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. co.chalkbeat.org/2023/10/26/239…

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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 Jennifer Brown☀️ coloradosun.com/2023/11/02/col…

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The Colorado governor’s $38B budget proposal for the 2024-25 fiscal year would fully fund K-12 education for the first time since the Great Recession cosun.co/3Sqkh3M

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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 coloradosun.com/2023/11/06/col…

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RESULTS -->> It will be interesting to see what becomes of American Birthright Standards after this sweep of the Woodland Park #SchoolBoard executives. Erica Breunlin ☀️ sandra fish 🐠 coloradosun.com/2023/11/07/col…

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The body of a Pagosa Springs man missing since August was found in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest on Oct. 30 with his Jack Russell Terrier, Finney, still alive and by his side. denverpost.com/2023/11/13/dog…

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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.coloradosun.com/2023/11/13/col…

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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 Keystone Policy Ctr for The Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/colorado-acade… #tellEWA

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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 Jennifer Brown☀️ The Colorado Sun. coloradosun.com/2023/11/14/ven…

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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 MCA Denver until Dec. 10. coloradosun.com/2023/11/17/col…

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One big takeaway from the JBC's review of Governor Jared Polis'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. Brian Eason reports: coloradosun.com/2023/11/17/col…

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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: coloradosun.com/2023/11/30/col…

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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 Keystone Policy Ctr map: coloradosun.com/2024/01/09/col…

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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. coloradosun.com/2024/01/26/col…