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Colorado schools got nearly $2 billion in COVID aid. Now the money is ending and districts face tough budget decisions.
Nearly $2 billion in federal aid flowed into Colorado school districts’ coffers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and, with that money, they expanded tutoring for children, started after-school and summer programs and increased mental health services. But that temporary funding is drying up and if districts haven’t...
DPS gins up a legal pretext to silence parents | Jimmy Sengenberger
Denver Public Schools wants to silence a ragtag group of parents fighting for their kids’ safety —using trivial legal pretexts to do it. The Parent-Safety Advocacy Group (P-SAG) was started on Facebook on March 24, 2023, two days after two deans were shot by a student at East High School.
FBI Denver to host teen academy in Grand Junction
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — On July 25, FBI Denver will host its FBI Teen Academy for rising high school freshmen through seniors in Grand Junction. The one-day program will allow high school students to get a deeper look into the FBI. Students will see several presentations on topics including terrorism, SWAT, cyber crime and the day-to-day operations of an FBI office. Students will also have a chance to learn from special agents, intelligence analysts and other professional staff about investigative tactics like gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses.
CU-Denver’s College in Prison Program Expanding Its Course Offerings
Incarcerated learners in the Colorado correctional system will soon be eligible for additional higher education courses, including Colorado University – Denver, Adams State and Red Rocks Community College. This past year, CU-Denver’s Communications Department offered special help in how some students in prison could become better, more effective communicators.
More young Denver students are reading at grade level, but not as many as before the pandemic
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.After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade students who ended the school year reading on grade level.But the test scores are still below pre-pandemic levels — a vexing outcome the district is acknowledging by adopting a new intervention program to help the most struggling learners. Studies show that students who don’t read proficiently...
To help migrant students, Westminster created a summer program for English language learners
WESTMINSTER | During the last week of summer school in Westminster, about 19 kids practiced forming English sentences that described pictures displayed on a smartboard at the front of the class. “I see kids playing fútbol,” one child, Mathias, said about a photo of a group of older kids playing...
Boys basketball: Centaurus tabs grad to lead Warriors
Broomfield High teacher Tyler Oliver, the 2009 Centaurus grad who recently landed the boys’ basketball head coaching job at his alma mater, can’t get far outside his classroom without running into an opportunity to discuss basketball. Not long ago, the 33-year-old convinced the Warriors and athletic director Karl...
Westminster tops RMAC with seven Brechler Awards for academic excellence | Colorado Sunshine
The RMAC has a bunch of brains. The RMAC on Monday announced its 2023-24 Brechler awards, given annually to the league’s best team grade-point averages for each of its 22 NCAA-sponsored sports. Westminster collected seven Brechler Awards with the top GPA in women's basketball, men’s cross country, men’s golf,...
NMI's Kevin Bautista and USC MPA team win top award for advising Denver-based nonprofit
THE University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy recently announced that a team of recent graduates from its top-ranked Master of Public Administration program has been awarded the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Recognition Award for Outstanding Performance. This prestigious honor is the top award for capstone projects from the USC Price School’s MPA and Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management programs.
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