AURORA | Last year, Goodwill Colorado opened what they say is the state’s only tuition-free high school for mature adults in Aurora called The Excel Center and boasted 68 graduates from their inaugural 2024-2025 school year.

This year, they enrolled 160 new students, school officials said.

“Goodwill of Colorado is furthering the state’s efforts with its second cohort heading to the classroom a few weeks ago, showing real-life momentum in transforming lives and preparing a new group of individuals who will soon be prepared to join Colorado’s workforce,” Excel Center officials said in a statement.

The school, at 15445 E Iliff Ave., was created to help bridge the skills gap Colorado is estimating in the coming years, with the state currently struggling with employers facing tens of th

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