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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.Despite pushback from parents, students, and teachers at a district-run elementary school that’s more than 100 years old, the Denver school board voted Thursday to allow a charter elementary school to move in next door.KIPP Sunshine Peak Elementary will relocate this fall from a cramped rented church building to a newer, more spacious building that already houses KIPP’s southwest Denver middle school. The middle school building is so close to district-run Valverde Elementary that the two share a parking lot. Standing outside of KIPP’s middle school, it’s possible to see Valverde’s playground and hear the squeals of children at recess.The close proximity of charter and district-run schools has long been a sore spot for charter critics in Denver, and the arrangement resurfaces familiar arguments in a difficult context. Enrollment is declining sharply in southwest Denver, and schools are competing for the students that remain. Valverde families worry that KIPP’s relocation will spell the end of their neighborhood school, which has thus far survived closure threats.“You don’t see a Home Depot next to a Home Depot,” said parent Averi Littlewolf, who has two children at Valverde. “So for an elementary school to be next to an elementary school that has already been there for over 100 years, it’s – I’m speechless.”KIPP Sunshine Peak Elementary is located in a rented former church building. It doesn't have a gymnasium, and its cafeteria used to be a classroom.But Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero said he’s confident the schools can co-exist. KIPP’s building only has the capacity to house 420 students from kindergarten through eighth grade. And as part of the move, KIPP agreed to give up its preschool classes. Valverde will keep its preschool, which Marrero said gives Valverde an advantage because many young students end up staying at the elementary school where they went to preschool.“This not only works for KIPP, for obvious reasons, but also the Valverde community because this will not allow KIPP to grow,” Marrero told the school board before the vote.KIPP leaders also promised not to actively recruit Valverde students, a move that district officials said shows an unprecedented willingness to collaborate. But the promise could be difficult to enforce. Colorado law allows any student to apply to attend any public school in the state, and DPS can’t stop students from transferring.“We want to partner, and we don’t want there to be a feeling of competition,” said Taamiti Bankole, KIPP Colorado’s chief external affairs officer.To add an extra layer of protection for Valverde, Marrero said the district will buy the school a digital marquee sign to help with marketing. Valverde will also get a bit more money, though the exact amount is unclear. DPS owns KIPP’s middle school building, and KIPP pays a fee to use it. That fee will increase when more students move in, and DPS will give the extra money to Valverde for the remaining two years of KIPP’s contract, Marrero said.KIPP is a national charter school network founded in Texas more than 30 years ago. The network has six schools in Denver, including three in the southwest. Denver school board member Kimberlee Sia was the CEO of KIPP Colorado Public Schools from 2013 to 2019.KIPP’s willingness to give up its preschool, coupled with the space constraints of the newer building, were cited by a majority of school board members who voted for the relocation. KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy's building has the capacity to house 420 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.Board member Monica Hunter, a former teacher who works for the statewide teachers union, said she was also swayed by the poor condition of KIPP’s rented elementary school building. It has no gymnasium, and its tiny cafeteria used to be a classroom. Some of the school’s 146 students learn in trailers near the playground because there’s not enough space inside.“While I will never be accused of being pro-charter,” Hunter said, “I do believe all children are our children. And every child deserves access to a high-quality building.”Valverde Elementary School has been serving students in southwest Denver for more than 100 years.Board President Xóchitl Gaytán was the only board member to vote no. Gaytán represents southwest Denver and has long accused charter schools of taking students from district-run schools. She said the same could happen to Valverde, which currently has about 350 students.“Understand that will happen, and your vote will have those repercussions going forward,” Gaytán told her fellow board members.Board member John Youngquist, who once served as principal of a different district-run elementary school in southwest Denver, called for DPS to come up with a longer-term plan for enrollment in that part of the city “so there’s a level of predictability.” Two southwest Denver elementary schools, Schmitt and Castro, were shuttered at the end of last school year due to declining enrollment.Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.Most of the babies hospitalized in a recent nationwide outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart baby formula have needed additional physical therapy and other medical support after going home, according to new data shared Friday.“Although many infants are now progressing in their recovery, evaluating their outcomes is essential to understanding the progression and severity of illness observed during this outbreak,” said Myra Brooks, a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, who presented the data at the service’s annual conference in Atlanta. The conference highlights the work of the agency’s disease detectives.Brooks, a first-year EIS officer, works with the CDC’s National Botulism Consultation Service and was part of the response to the outbreak linked to ByHeart infant formula last year. It is the first documented outbreak of infant botulism linked to powdered formula, she noted.The CDC declared the outbreak over on Feb. 26, with 48 confirmed and probable cases of infant botulism in 17 states that were linked to the baby formula. All of the infants required hospitalization; there were no deaths. All of ByHeart’s Whole Nutrition Infant Formula products were recalled.Infant botulism is caused by babies ingesting spores of Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which can activate in their intestines and produce a dangerous toxin that can cause muscle weakness and paralysis. Initial symptoms can include difficulty sucking and swallowing, constipation, and loss of head control. Without treatment, breathing difficulties can develop. Health investigators were able to obtain and review the medical records for 46 of the 48 infants, which showed that most of those who were sickened had moderate to severe disease. Those with moderate disease, 61% of the infants in the outbreak, required assisted feeding or non-invasive respiratory support, Brooks said Friday. Another 11% of the infants had severe disease. “During hospitalization, these infants experienced respiratory difficulty, requiring intubation or received a surgically placed feeding tube,” she said.The remaining 28% of infants in the outbreak were classified as having mild disease, although they still needed hospitalization.While the outbreak cases stayed in the hospital for a median of eight days, some of those with severe disease were hospitalized for more than a month, according to her presentation slides. For many of the infants sickened in the outbreak, their medical treatments needed to continue after leaving the hospital, Brooks said.“A third of infants were discharged with nasogastric tubes to supplement feeding, and two-thirds of infants had follow-up orders for physical, speech or occupational therapy,” she said. The infant botulism outbreak was first identified in early November by the California Department of Public Health, which runs the national infant botulism program that distributes the only FDA-approved drug to treat children sickened by the toxin. The department noticed an increase in medication requests among babies who had consumed ByHeart formula and alerted federal officials. Outbreak cases continued to rise in the weeks that followed amid delays by retailers in removing recalled formula from store shelves that were compounded by delays by the Food and Drug Administration in sharing information with state food safety officials about where the product was being sold.While health officials initially thought babies had started falling ill in August 2025, they later identified cases going back to December 2023. Although ByHeart’s products made up only about 1% of the formula products sold in the United States, the premium organic brand had a loyal following and the outbreak shook some consumers’ confidence in formula safety generally. The federal investigation of how ByHeart’s formula became contaminated has in recent months focused on the product’s ingredients. Earlier this year, the FDA announced that tests had detected contamination with Clostridium botulinum – the bacteria that cause infant botulism – in some samples of powdered whole milk used to make the formula. The FDA has said its investigation into the root cause of the contamination is ongoing, but the agency has not provided any update since Feb. 26.ByHeart’s media team, in an email to Healthbeat late Friday, said the company continues to work with the FDA on its investigation. “Our root cause investigation remains ongoing, and we’ll share updates as they become available,” the email said.Alison Young is Healthbeat’s senior national reporter. You can reach her at ayoung@healthbeat.org or through the messaging app Signal at alisonyoungreports.48.

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(The Center Square) – Amid fears that artificial intelligence technology is taking people’s jobs, one new bill in California aims to determine the impacts on the labor force in the coming years. Assembly Bill 2545, authored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, proposes to research the effects the rapidly-developing technology has on California’s labor force and jobs across industries. The bill would establish a new program under the California Employment Development Department, which the bill calls the California Artificial Intelligence Worker Impact Data Assessment Project. The project would study the impact of A.I. on the labor force and provide policy recommendations for how the legislature can support workers impacted by A.I., according to the text of the bill. “It’s good we’re just studying it,” Spence Purnell, senior technology and innovation fellow at R Street Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C., told The Center Square Friday. “There’s been sort of a tendency across the states to maybe jump the gun on A.I. regulation.” Purnell said that A.I. has replaced certain jobs in larger numbers, particularly software developers, customer service representatives, accountants, auditors, receptionists, information clerks and other roles that have highly repetitive tasks or that are easily automated. “Those are certainly the most exposed,” Purnell said. “Jobs that have been less exposed have been more human-to-human jobs, like sales and management. Those jobs tend to be more human skills, interpersonal skills, and those are much less automatable.” That can include higher-level positions that require early-career work experience, Purnell added, which poses a problem for young workers who now face a job market where A.I. is replacing entry-level jobs. However, Purnell said he sees other opportunities for young workers to get the experience they need to eventually move up into middle-career and senior-level positions in professions like software development. “But it’s not all doom and gloom,” Lisa Countryman-Quiroz, CEO of JVS Bay Area, wrote to The Center Square via email on Friday. “There are plenty of job openings in healthcare and the skilled trades, sectors that are inherently AI-resistant because they require hands-on, human skills.” As white collar jobs shrink in California, opportunities for blue collar work are going up, Countryman-Quiroz added. “AI can be an opportunity for jobseekers who are proactive about learning new skills and rethinking what career path is right for them,” she said. According to a legislative analysis of the bill, A.I. technology mimics human intelligence and can accomplish tasks normally performed by humans. Multiple reports, including one used by the author of the bill from Chicago-based firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, shows that A.I. was involved in the elimination of 142 jobs in December 2025. As of the publication of that report in December 2025, 54,836 jobs were at risk of being eliminated in all of 2025 because of A.I. Approximately 71,825 jobs were cut between 2023 and December 2025 because of A.I., according to that report. That could have significant tax implications for governments. A study from the RAND Corporation shows that in 2024, 84% of federal revenue came from individual income taxes or payroll taxes. These labor-based sources of tax revenue for the federal government could be significantly reduced under most economic scenarios detailed in the RAND study. None of the scenarios outlined in the report gave raw dollar amounts for the amount of money that could be lost in revenue to the federal government. However, theoretically, if A.I. had replaced enough jobs in 2024 to wipe out 84% of the federal government’s revenue that year, $4.116 trillion would have been reduced from federal revenue that year. The Congressional Budget Office reports that the federal government received $4.9 trillion in revenues, of which almost half was from individual income taxes. According to the most recent bill analysis for Assembly Bill 2545, the only group listed as opposed to the bill unless amended is the California Chamber of Commerce. However, a representative of the chamber told The Center Square via email on Friday afternoon that the chamber is no longer opposed to the bill after recent amendments were made to the bill. “We’re neutral,” John Myers, senior vice president of communications and external affairs at the California Chamber of Commerce, wrote to The Center Square in the email. “And again, I would refer to the 4/14 amendments as addressing our concerns.” Myers did not elaborate on the chamber’s changed position on the bill when asked for a more complete response. Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, the author of the bill, did not respond to The Center Square on Friday. The bill would sunset on Jan. 1, 2027.

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Organizaciones legales y de defensa en Carolina del Norte impulsan una carta conjunta dirigida a los miembros de la Asamblea General estatal para alertar sobre las disposiciones que consideran perjudiciales en el proyecto de ley que busca financiar Medicaid en el estado. La entrada Piden eliminar disposiciones de Medicaid que afectan a inmigrantes se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Piden eliminar disposiciones de Medicaid que afectan a inmigrantes was first posted on abril 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org