Officials at Fort Lewis College in Durango, where more than half of the student body consists of minorities, say they're committed to maintaining their mission and messaging around diversity. Yet, the college is reserved about how it would respond to losing federal funding as a result of its efforts to promote diversity.

Eight student body presidents from Colorado college campuses met with Hickenlooper on a virtual call Monday. They had some questions.

Many questions remain unanswered, but policy experts say proposed changes may harm some of the state and country’s most vulnerable kids.

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On a sunny May morning, more than 100 fifth graders played and explored in an open grassy clearing surrounded by pine trees on the banks of the rushing Buffalo Fork River. They were attending the annual Blackrock Field Camp, a two-day educational event put on by the U.S. Forest Service each year for students from elementary schools on the Wind River Reservation.

The pilot UPK program served more total 4-year-olds, but new standards have reduced support for other vulnerable preschoolers.

Founded in 2015, the Dził Ditł’ooí School of Empowerment, Action, and Perseverance (DEAP) is in Navajo, New Mexico. One of the school’s administrators says it was created out of a desire to Indigenize education for students by including traditional Navajo practices and spaces in the curriculum – especially after decades of cultural erasure due to the U.S. Indian boarding school system.

The Indian Health Service is working to provide tens of thousands of children’s books to Indigenous families across the U.S., including parts of the Mountain West.

Elfreida Begay pitched the idea to the school district years ago. After earning her credentials, she teaches the Navajo language to students who elected to take the class.

Elfreida Begay began teaching the Navajo language at Durango High School this fall, helping her Indigenous students reclaim their culture and language after their ancestors were stripped of their Native identities.