School districts cancel classes due to staff absences
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Two Denver metro area school districts that serve large immigrant populations are canceling school Friday after a high number of teachers called out of work on a day of planned nationwide protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions. Aurora Public Schools will be closed Friday due to staff absences, the 38,000-student school district announced Thursday night. The diverse suburb was the target of intense immigration raids last year after President Donald Trump claimed the city was a “war zone” overrun by Venezuelan gangs. A planned staff-only work day scheduled for Feb. 6 will now be a regular school day for students in exchange, the district said in a press release. Students in the 5,000-student Adams 14 school district in Commerce City won’t have school tomorrow for the same reason, according