{"id":1384312,"date":"2019-01-09T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=961859"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:25:49","slug":"half-of-all-colorado-high-schools-dont-send-majority-of-their-graduates-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/half-of-all-colorado-high-schools-dont-send-majority-of-their-graduates-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of all Colorado high schools don\u2019t send majority of their graduates to college"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/education-equality-620x412.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/education-equality-620x412.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/education-equality-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/education-equality-325x216.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/education-equality.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Half of all Colorado high schools don&#8217;t send a majority of their graduates to a college, trade school or any other variety of postsecondary program, according to a new report released Tuesday by an educational advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>A+ Colorado&#8217;s report, <a href=\"http:\/\/apluscolorado.org\/reports\/a-seat-at-the-table-reissue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A Seat at the Table: Colorado Students&#8217; Access to Top Colleges,&#8221;<\/a> tracks where high school students attended college from 2009 to 2015 to determine which schools were most successful in not only sending scholars to college, but to top-tier schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that particularly for low-income kids and students of color, the difference between going to a selective, top-performing school will have a huge impact on their lives and their family trajectory,&#8221; said Van Schoales, CEO of A+ Colorado. &#8220;We wanted to know where are these places? Where were high schools creating an economic opportunity for these folks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Seat at the Table&#8221; report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/12\/20\/colorado-high-schools-top-tier-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally was issued in 2017<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/apluscolorado.org\/reports\/a-seat-at-the-table-colorado-students-access-to-top-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was retracted soon after<\/a> because it contained &#8220;significant&#8221; data errors.\u00a0A+ Colorado partnered with the Colorado Department of Higher Education to identify and correct the mistakes, according to the new report.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/09\/best-colorado-high-schools-college-enrollment\/\">Denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/half-of-all-colorado-high-schools-dont-send-majority-of-their-graduates-to-college\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of all Colorado high schools don&#8217;t send a majority of their graduates to a college, trade school or any other variety of postsecondary program, according to a new report released Tuesday by an educational advocacy group. A+ Colorado&#8217;s report, &#8220;A Seat at the Table: Colorado Students&#8217; Access to Top Colleges,&#8221; tracks where high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-17 09:12:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}