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New twist for school finance |
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KCMO School District Selects New Superintendent The Kansas City, Missouri, School District's search for a new superintendent is over. The school board announced on Thursday that Dr. John Covington has been selected to lead the district. Dr. Covington is the current superintendent and chief executive officer of the Pueblo (Colorado) City Schools. |
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The Classical Academy and Pikes Peak Community College Recognized for Paving New Ground The Classical Academy (TCA) along with Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) received the first annual "Innovator of the Year Award" presented by the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual. |
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Peak to Peak Charter School Closes on Land Purchase! |
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Local teacher concerned of possible exposure to swine flu |
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2009 Session - Charter Schools Struggle To Pay For Buildings Charters have to find their own facilities and pay for them. A bill - headed for the governor's desk - is designed to give charters better access to bond money. Ryan Warner speaks with Jim Griffin of the Colorado League of Charter Schools. |
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Bill promoting parental involvement in education draws little flak in committee |
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Demand for Charter Schools Is High, Seats Are Few |
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Do charters accept special needs students? |
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Banning Lewis Ranch Academy Stallions Charge Forward to Success! Banning Lewis Ranch Academy, in its third year of operation, has successfully implemented a myriad of programs in the midst of developing an excellent learning environment. |
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School finance bill changes OKd |
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Columbine's Rachel Scott touches charter schools The Classical Academy, an award winning charter school in Colorado Springs, recently hosted Rachel's father and CEO of Rachel's Challenge-Darrel Scott. The school audience was silent as they were ushered through the emotional journey of the slain teenager. Powerful video footage of the actual event was coupled with essays and diary entries written by Rachel herself. |
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Shaffer next in line for Senate president |
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CIVA and Colorado Springs team up for Earth Day |
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Including charter schools in bond elections, great for taxpayers |
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Autism charter bill squeaks by |
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Senate Democrats set to pick Groff's replacement |
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Charter bonds bill a done deal |
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School finance set for big makeover By the end of the day Monday, the 2009-10 school finance bill is going to look at lot different than it did when it emerged from the Senate April 3 on a 30-2 vote. Senate Bill 09-256, pushed through the Senate in just four days, was a heavily reform-oriented proposal to funnel more money directly to regular and charter schools with significant percentages of at-risk students (including charter schools), provide a funding formula for charter school facilities, give school districts more flexibility in use of various reserve funds, create a state boarding school for at-risk students and require all 9th graders to register with College in Colorado for advisory services. |
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Animas High School finds its home |
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guest commentary Innovation is the key to education reform |
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A Parent's Voice - Terrific Information for Moms and Dads |
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Lafayette teens try to ramp up skate park proposal "It could really be a good thing for the Lafayette community," said Casey, a junior at Peak to Peak Charter School. "We're the only city in Boulder County that doesn't have a skate park." |
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Vail photo: Ettiquette lessons |
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Do picky charters pick students? |
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It's unofficial 'Peter Groff Day' in the Colorado Senate |
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Schools celebrate 39th anniversary of Earth Day |
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Higher Ed Among Top Issues as Lawmakers Grapple With Budget |
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Variances in charter school enrollment policies |
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Lessons from the high seas |
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Students earn savings plans in writing contest |
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Naval program afloat at BLRA |
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Court's decision backs City Schools in dispute The Colorado Court of Appeals has sided with Pueblo City Schools in its five-year battle over $900,000 that a local charter school wanted to pay for a building. The attorney for the charter school said that the decision would be appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. |
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Dems torn over education innovation grant |
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Don't rush into four-day week |
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Littleton schools to compete at Science Olympiad Two teams from Littleton Preparatory Charter School and one team each from Newton and Powell Middle schools successfully demonstrated their skills at the Northern Regional competition March 7 at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, and three of those teams advanced to compete at the statewide competition this Saturday in Golden. |
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Innovation for Colorado education |
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Haley: Moving schools forward |
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Charter schools ask for stimulus dollars |
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Great Kids - Kayla Summers (charter school essay winner) |
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Great Kids - Joanna Frye (charter school essay runner-up) |
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Panel OK's School Finance Act |
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GOP, Denver Democrats unite on school bill |
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Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien speaks at charter school rally |
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Senate president Groff speaks at charter school rally |
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Fast-moving school bill rewards at-risk successes |
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Video report on charter school rally |
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Charter schools to rally for piece of stimulus cash |
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DPS deserves praise for Chavez charter solution |
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More full-day kindergarten options available this year |
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Greene: School's sex-ed class opens eyes and hearts |
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North Star Academy student wins essay contest |
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Northern Colorado Charter School Blazes New Trails |
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In jaws of a 'bot battle |
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Obama's plan for our schools |
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Breaking Charter School News! Please break out your calendars -March 30th through April 2nd is Colorado Charter School Week. This year we are celebrating the 15 year anniversary of charter schools in Colorado! |
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SVVSD enrollment to grow in and out of city |
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One budget hole closed; next is bigger |
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César Chavez Academy coming to North Denver |
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Charter school teacher values |
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Charter school teachers highly qualified! Examiner.com - March 25, 2009Although the No Child Left Behind Act does not require charter school teachers to have a Colorado teaching license-many charter teachers do. |
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Charter School Essay Winners Selected |
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House stands firm on charters, parent leave The legislative game of ping-pong over charter school facilities funding went another round Wednesday when the House voted to cut 2008-09 spending back to $5 million. |
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Leave, charter bills OK'd by Senate The Senate Tuesday gave final approval to the bill requiring some parent leave for school meetings and to the measure that would give charter schools a greater chance for participation in school district bond issues. |
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Honors A look at the accomplishments of Boulder County people |
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Deal has K-8 aiming for fall |
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UNC ready to tackle school reform |
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Socialistic worker not so socialistic Charter schools have two types of enrollment policies-lottery, or first-come-first-serve. That's not what the definition of "cherry picking" students is. Of Colorado's 150 plus charters only one pre-admission tests--Stargate. That's because Stargate is a gifted and talented program. |
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Front Range briefs |
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Cesar Chavez Academy has inked a building deal |
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Should Obama look to Sweden's successful school voucher program? |
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Youth supporting youth program receives $33,350 State Farm grant |
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State board gives two schools "innovation" status |
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Guest commentary: Local control of local schools |
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Classical Academy faces investigation |
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7 of 9 D-11 principals reassigned The board also appointed Larry Bartel as principal for Emerson Middle School, which has been a charter school but will reopen in August as a D-11 school. |
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Dear Gov. Ritter |
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Letters to the Editor - The Classical Academy I am what I like to call an "Ivory Soap" parent at The Classical Academy -99.44 pleased at any given moment with what is going on there. I have a junior high student, an elementary student and one on the wait list who will enter kindergarten in a few years. There have been and will continue to be areas where I think TCA can improve, but the school is being unfairly attacked in recent days. |
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Charter bonds bill neutered to move forward SB 176 was heavily amended on Thursday in order to get it out of the Senate Education Committee. The bill went from being a "shall" bill to a "may" bill. Essentially, other than making a statement in statute, the bill would have little, if any, effect for charter schools seeking assistance with their capital construction costs. |
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Innovation schools approved for Denver |
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Students Claim Prom Dress Code Is Too Strict Some parents and students say a dress code is putting a damper on prom night in Colorado Springs. Students at James Irwin Charter School are learning the school's "formal dance attire policy" that was passed out to seniors. The two-page policy lists rules including no see-through or excessive tight-fitting dresses. Some students say buying a dress that didn't violate the rules was difficult. |
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Charter schools need 75 days cash on hand |
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DPS presses reform agenda |
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Georgetown Community School gets new five-year contract |
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State's $900 million share spurs excitement, concern |
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State Investigating The Classical Academy |
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"Insulting" Prom Dress Code Angers Students and Parents |
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Peak to Peak High School Science Olympiad Team Places at Regionals |
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Academy Charter School Qualifies in Colorado "GeoBee" |
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Charter bonds bill passes committee |
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On education, Obama has an ambitious vision |
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Parent leave bill advances |
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Same school, new name A new name was approved Wednesday for a charter school in Colorado Springs to better convey its mission, said Kevin Teasley, president and chief executive officer of the GEO Foundation, which oversees the school and three others in Indiana. The new name for the 21st Century Charter School is Pikes Peak Prep because "we want students who are coming here to go to college," Teasley said. |
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Obama supports vouchers! |
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Colorado K-12 schools to get $900M in economic aid |
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Colorado education to get $900 million |
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Incentives ban passes, with another tweak A bill that would ban schools from offering incentives to students solely for enrolling was passed 6-0 Wednesday by the Senate Education Committee. The committee approved an amendment that would create another exception to the ban, allowing students and parents to receive "items of value" for providing services at a school. |
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Bring on merit pay! Colorado has been a red state in national elections for many years. It has also been hailed the 9th strongest state in Charter School law. |
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Building charter school quality in Colorado The League is now playing a lead role in implementing the Framework for Academic Quality across our state's charter school sector, through a new program called Building Charter School Quality - Colorado (BCSQ-Colorado). Thanks in part to a generous grant from the Walton Family Foundation, the League's strategy of promoting a "data-driven culture" across the charter community will take shape over the coming year. |
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Boulder Valley forges ahead with charter lawsuit Boulder Valley school board members unanimously agreed Tuesday to forge ahead with the school district's 4-year-old lawsuit challenging a state charter program. The school district has spent $198,695 to date on the unsuccessful lawsuit, which challenges the constitutionality of the Colorado Charter School Institute. But the district won't have to pay attorneys' fees to take the case to the Colorado Supreme Court, appealing two lower courts' rulings against Boulder Valley. |
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Colorado's alternate teacher pay program stalled by lack of funds Schools can be chartered through local districts or the state Charter School Institute. Mund said Colorado charters are flourishing and are known for having higher academic performance, which she credited to a strict approval process and a focus on quality. |
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American Academy 4th in Math Competition |
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Butcher: Parents want, deserve, benefit from choices |
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Charters--a viable solution for district woes? The Douglas County School District is in budget mode and rumors about this cut and the other seem to change each week. This week a couple of friends called and asked if the charter schools will participate in budget cuts the same way as the neighborhood schools. The questions were mostly about class size increase and whether the charters would need to increase their class sizes if the rest of the district schools do. The short and incomplete answer is--no. |
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BVSD: Drop the charter suit |
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School funding still up in the air He based the preliminary budget on the district's having 24,618 full-time students next year, up from 23,901 this year. About 2,136 of those will attend charter schools, though. State money follows students to charter schools, so it is removed from the district's general fund. |
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Unity gave way to crabby |
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State budget cuts concern educators |
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More training for charter schools |
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State education commissioner visits Craig Jones mentioned possibly giving schools waivers to become similar to charter schools in that they would be able to employ different teaching techniques as a way to attract more teachers. |
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State GOP miffed at midway point Sen. Nancy Spence, R-Centennial, said several education bills regarding funding for charter schools and making public school financing more transparent have united Republicans and Democrats, however briefly. |
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Charter school admits some mistakes, promises positive changes The issues revolve around The Classical Academy. On February 24th, we showed you that we gained access to the school through an open construction area. |
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Student incentives: reward or bribe? |
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Court of Appeals comes to Poudre |
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Northern Colorado to get $25 million for road projects |
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Students sit out CSAP over principal's suspension |
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Students celebrate Dr. Seuss, take part in Read Across America Day |
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What would The Classical Academy do? |
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Charter school supporters forming committees Parents in Colorado can send students to any school they choose, as long as there is space available. The proposed Stagecoach charter school would be public, free of charge and affiliated with the South Routt School District, though its curriculum, method of instruction and facilities have not yet been identified. |
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TCA looks at safety issues |
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Charter School Students' Lives Threatened |
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DCSD on Charter School Bond Bill |
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Charter School Bond Bill Delay |
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Dems: It takes a village to resist the pull of Cheetos |
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Daniels Fund targets food programs with latest grants |
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Senate Ed Delays Bond Bill |
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Co Charter Bond Sharing Bill 09-176 The most talked about event of the day is the state senate hearing for 09-176 CONCERNING CHARTER SCHOOL INCLUSIONS IN DISTRICT BOND ELECTIONS. If passed, Colorado will be the third state in the nation to have a law for inclusion of charter school needs as a consideration for local school district bond elections. |
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Regional school supporters rallying Jim Griffin, president of the Colorado League of Charter Schools, said the Stagecoach proposal is similar to the North Routt Community Charter School because both schools were not created around one academic principle or curriculum - like a Montessori school - but around geographic constraints. |
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Bill would require schools to be prepared for food allergies Martin wants state lawmakers to require public schools and charter schools to develop a policy for managing children with life threatening food allergies. |
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Prom Rules |
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Charter school bill goes too far |
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Kim Rabon, Jane Colby and Ken Burgess: It's about choice On Saturday, the Stagecoach Charter School steering committee will host an update meeting at 11 a.m. at the Stagecoach Firehouse. We will share our vision and mission statements, which will drive the development of Stagecoach Charter School. |
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List of D-11 Schools Future Up for Closure Vote |
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Collegiate Academy seeks silent auction donations Collegiate Academy of Colorado, a K-12 Charter School in Littleton, is seeking donations for its annual silent auction to be held on Saturday May 9th. |
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Charter school perks: staff |
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Parents accuse school leaders of hiding "Columbine" style attack A Colorado Springs student threatens a "Columbine attack" and some parents say the school tried to hide the threat, and they claim school leaders aren't doing enough to protect their kids. It's happening the Classical Academy in Colorado Springs. The charter school was recently accused of allowing a racist culture to persist in the school, we showed you that story 2 weeks ago. |
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Parents accuse school leaders of hiding "Columbine" style attack A Colorado Springs student threatens a "Columbine attack" and some parents say the school tried to hide the threat, and they claim school leaders aren't doing enough to protect their kids. It's happening the Classical Academy in Colorado Springs. The charter school was recently accused of allowing a racist culture to persist in the school, we showed you that story 2 weeks ago. |
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Machiavelli, innovation, and charter schools |
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Wasson High may be reconsidered in D-11's plans |
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DPS gets tough on principal bonuses |
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APS conditionally renews Lotus' contract through 2012 |
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Sleepless YAFA trio going to state |
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First Ever Colorado Charter School Teacher Job Fair |
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Unveiling school secrets The goal of SB 57 - making school districts and charter schools more accountable to all Coloradans - is worth accomplishing. |
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School holding blood drive |
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TN Mom on Colorado Charter School--JICS |
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The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond Late in 2007, Animas High School received approval from the Colorado Charter School board to open a 440-student public high school in Durango. |
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Is Your District 11 School On The Closure List? Part of Longfellow could become a tuition-based pre-school, while another part of the building could become a charter school or leased for other use. |
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Colorado budget writers banking on stimulus money Members also want to cut $5 million set aside for charter school construction. The committee has been bombarded with requests to reconsider their countless decisions to cut here and there. |
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Dancing toward confidence and success in Vail Valley |
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Parents Love Twin Peaks Academy Charter! |
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Racism and Bullying at the Classical Academy? |
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LETTERS: Charters Killing School District |
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Making progress - Becoming English-proficient takes support and time The boys are part of a growing population of English-language learners at Twin Peaks. In 2006, the percentage of Twin Peaks students who were English-language learners was 2.2 percent. In 2007, it was 10.7 percent. In 2008, it was 18.5 percent, according to the school district. |
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Minnesota charter schools are in for a change |
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NOREEN: Bob Dylan speaks volumes to next generation |
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The EMO/Charter relationship EMOs are for-profit management companies. The practice of using this type of management services is almost as old as charter school law. Edison, one of the recognized names in the EMO industry, originally only served charter schools while nowadays just as commonly doing business with public school districts. |
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Update on Charters and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan National Alliance of Public Charter Schools - February 20, 2009An in-depth overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's (ARRA) State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, including the State Incentive Grants and Innovation Fund is now available. The document also includes information on the main education programs that are receiving increased funding, highlighting the way each of these program's funding is distributed (grants vs. direct formula), and specific information about each of the tax related programs that received new allocations. |
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Court supports charter law The Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld a law that allows the state to create charter schools within local school district boundaries. |
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Court State charter schools are constitutional |
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U.S. Education Secretary Announces State-by-State Dollars in New York |
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McCain: Country will rebound from economic crisis He also said there are differing views on class size, and that smaller classes do not necessarily mean better teachers. Teacher pay based on performance is needed, and he called the "No Child Left Behind Act" a good beginning. He also said charter schools can provide competition to public schools. He spoke of school districts in Washington, D.C., that get more money but that its school system is in bad shape. |
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State Board of Education Hears Update on Federal Stimulus Package Members also want to cut $5 million set aside for charter school construction. The committee has been bombarded with requests to reconsider their countless decisions to cut here and there. |
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Colorado not first at charter bond law |
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Second public hearing: What's the hurry, D-11? |
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Is Colorado setting new standards in charter school funding? |
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New State Report Shows Graduation Rate For Students With Disabilities Increased by 4.83 percent The Colorado Department of Education announced today the availability of the "2007-08 State Performance Plan," designed to improve the educational and functional outcomes for children with disabilities. |
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Colorado offered more for less |
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OH governor proposes charter budget cut, CO to listen to charter support |
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Charter School helps student catch up years of reading and math From the Colorado Charter School Examiner's desk to yours, here are some feel good charter stories to brighten your day and pay tribute to these schools: Submitted by a parent from James Irwin Charter School (JICS) to Stacy Rivera, the Colorado League of Charter Schools (edited for length)... |
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Renewal application approved for G-Town Community School The Clear Creek school board has approved the renewal application for the Georgetown Community School, a public charter school. The school is in the third year of its initial three-year contract and submitted an application on Dec. 1 for renewal as the only charter school in Clear Creek County. |
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Letters - Sunday |
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NOREEN: D-11 school closures are long overdue |
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Students hospitalized, school evacuated because of odor |
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Management Companies and Charter Schools |
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The Brain in Charter School Anatomy |
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Attitude reform for students |
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Lotus School supporters urge APS to renew contract The Aurora Public Schools Board of Education on Tuesday heard an overflowing plea to renew a contract with an Aurora charter school. |
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Obamas Read to Second Graders, President Plugs Stimulus Bill President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited the District of Columbia's Capital City Charter School this afternoon to read to second-graders. The president explained to the group that they were stopping by because `We were just tired of being in the White House." |
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How public is a public charter school as a public school? Define public schools. Google it. I did. No matter how you turn it a charter school is a public school. So why is it that every time funding comes around, public charter school people have to fight to be included. Frankly, I am a little tired of it. |
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Charter School Boards (not a game) |
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D-11 releases latest draft of reorganization plan |
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'Transparency' the stuff of spin in 2009 |
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Peak to Peak Announces 2009 Speech and Debate Festival Winners |
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North Star Academy's field of dreams |
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CAIS Program Spotlight - Global Village Charter School |
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DVS asks students to help recruit The first-year charter school focuses on entrepreneurship and leadership skills, and uses some Junior Achievement curriculum as well. |
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Follow the (charter school) leader |
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Guest Commentary: The sinking deck of DPS |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news |
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State cuts close to home |
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Senate committee contemplates online school budgets Senate Bill 57 would require school districts, including charter schools, to create and maintain searchable copies of their budgets on the Web. |
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Obama--Not too Cool for School |
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Consensus to tighten belts |
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Ritter suggests more cuts for FY 2009 |
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Helping your Vail Valley child succeed |
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$196 million in education cuts in Ritter's proposal |
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Granby - East Grand School District revises budget |
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Schools need open books |
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Fat kids or thin funds: ugly choice |
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Bill Gates: Change Limits and Funding Rules for Public Charter Schools Foundation Co-Chairman Bill Gates called for changing the limits and funding rules that have hampered the growth of public charter schools, stating that "Educational innovation and overall improvement will go a lot faster," if these changes are enacted. |
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Nominations Now Open for 2009 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching program, marking the 25th anniversary of this award. The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Completed applications are due Friday, May 1, 2009. |
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Road ahead for DPS: School reform in tough times Q. Some charter schools are hiring now. Is February early enough? A. We want it to be as early as possible. We haven't even gotten our budget from the state yet. We need to get our budget from the state and give schools their budget so they can know how much money they have to hire people... |
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Can Uncle Sam save Colorado schools? |
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Charter School Enrollment for Mummies (and daddies) prt2 |
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Re-2 reviewing all school facilities |
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Irwin family celebrates schools' achievements |
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Charter School Enrollment for Mummies (and daddies) prt1 |
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Watching history-in-the-making live What a great history lesson. At CIVA Charter High School in Colorado Springs, students, faculty and staff watched the inauguration on a large screen in an auditorium. |
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Local Students Watch Inauguration Locally, high schools and elementaries across Southern Colorado watched the inauguration festivities. CIVA Charter High School in Colorado Springs also used today as a history lesson. |
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Students across southern Colorado watch Obama take oath |
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Schools make inauguration a teachable moment |
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CARROLL: Tourist trap |
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Aspen, Carbondale charter schools worried about state cuts Charter schools in Aspen and Carbondale could be hit hard by last Friday's education cuts proposed by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. Among the initial proposed budget cuts is slashing state funding by 50 percent that helps charter schools cover the cost of building or maintaining their buildings. It would translate to a $14,000 cut for both the Aspen Community School and Carbondale Community School, according to Skye Skinner, executive director of the nonprofit that oversees the schools. |
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State may receive $415M in federal education funds |
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Ritter's gains go into reverse |
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Springs Lawmaker seeks end to charter school incentives |
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Teen rocket scientists to perform for NASA A group of teenagers from Colorado Springs has caught the eye of scientists at NASA. Their performance at a model-rocketry competition last spring earned them the chance to compete in a design contest hosted by the space agency. |
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Governor Proposes Cutting $632 Million from Budget Ritter recommended eliminating $20 million from state contributions to public schools, $5 million for charter school construction and $1.2 million set aside for teacher recruiting. |
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Gypsum charter school seeks big donor |
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Most in PSD deemed 'highly qualified' |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news |
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Colorado 1st US State with Two Black Leaders |
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'Everything on table' for budget ax |
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Lawmakers expect education to take biggest budget hit |
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Schools make historic inaugural a teachable moment CIVA Charter School, Colorado Springs, Colo. CIVA is using the inauguration to highlight the history of race relations. Students, mostly in 11th and 12th grades, will make presentations about the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case, Rosa Parks and the Little Rock 9 in a Tuesday morning program. The school plans to show the inauguration on the big screen. |
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Public Charter Schools Over-Represented in Survey of America's Best Schools Despite representing just 5% of high schools across the country, public charter schools account for 14% of the highest academically performing schools and 21% of the most improved schools in a new survey released today by Great Schools, a national school rating service. In all, a total of 28 public charter schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia were recognized by the survey. |
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Helping so many in need |
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Denver Venture School Launches Student-Driven Recruitment Challenge |
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'Nature' Charter School Withdraws Application |
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Grand Opening of New Loveland Boys & Girls Club |
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Charter Schools Can Close the Education Gap |
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Artists Receive National Honors |
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Districts 20, 49 among state's fastest growing |
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One finalist enough for DPS board |
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Are Colorado's school's "broken"? Colorado Senate President Peter Groff, in a speech on the opening day of the 2009 legislature, listed several challenges facing the state in these tough economic times, including "a broken education system." |
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Researchers find many schools run by nonprofits |
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Charter school's board backs closure by June |
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More Colorado Government Mark Hyatt, president of the The Classical Academy charter school in Colorado Springs, doesn't expect a huge boost in construction money, despite a glut of undersized charter schools throughout the state. But he'd like the legislature to hold the line this year and then index the funds for future growth when the economy improves, he said. |
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Legislative session begins today |
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All of school's seniors accepted to college |
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Freshmen form a diverse class |
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Michael Bennet is an advocate for change With the announcement that Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet has been selected to fill the remaining term of U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, my message is straightforward: It's a great day for Colorado. |
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Pint-size scientists But Davin Kirkevold, a 7-year-old second-grader at Twin Peaks Charter Academy, said he was really there for the "blow-up science." |
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Education savvy sent Bennet to head of class |
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2008 shook the city The Hayden School District added a state-of-the-art regional vocational center, and in North Routt, plans and fundraising continued for a new charter school facility - an idea now under way in McCoy and being considered in Stagecoach. |
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Michael Bennet |
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Wildly popular websites offer consumers' appraisals |
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Charter schools network looks to grow with Romer at helm |
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1 in 3 new college students need remedial classes |
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Third of grads in state trail in basics As a taxpayer and high school principal, Bill Kurtz thinks remediation seems maddeningly inefficient. He runs the Denver School for Science and Technology, a charter high school that sent all of its graduates last spring to college. |
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A look back at 2008 area sports scene, and a look ahead to 2009 |
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Panel rules charter school funds should be based on Oct. count |
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"Benchmarking For Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education" Now Available |
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Charter school wins $500K in expansion funds North Routt Community Charter School Director Colleen Poole received an early Christmas gift this year. On Wednesday, the Department of Local Affairs announced the charter school will receive a $500,000 energy impact grant from the state. |
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Poudre School District Teams go to Robotics Nationals |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news Colorado Education Commissioner Dwight D. Jones has appointed Joyce Schuck of Colorado Springs to the board of the state Charter School Institute. |
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Granby - East Grand Board of Education rejects charter school's funding request |
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31 Flavors of Public Education |
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Obama Taps Reformer as Education Secretary Duncan has also managed to steer a middle ground between Chicago 's education reformers, who stress charter schools and support for No Child Left Behind, ... |
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North Star Academy |
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Do Your Homework Before Picking a School-OPINION Last week, the Colorado Department of Education released SARs into the public. No, not the contagion that ran amok through Asia awhile back; in this case, SARs stands for School Accountability Reports, the official two-page profile of each of Colorado's 1,998 public schools. One thing the data clearly show is that charter schools are an ongoing success. |
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Nearly half of Loveland schools get top ranking The report also showed five schools dropping in ratings, including New Vision Charter School's middle school, which earned an "excellent" rating last year. ... |
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Our New President Can Improve the Nation's Schools--OPINION Now that the emotional months of the presidential campaign and election are behind us, we should continue to harness this collective energy to address America's urgent challenges, beginning with our education system. I urge President-elect Barack Obama to unite the country around improving schools by focusing on three key areas: |
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Re-2 OKs Lake George Charter School contract |
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School Accountability Reports released |
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Charter offers hope to at-risk students |
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Schools Invited To Apply For Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessment Pilot; Deadline is Jan. 15, 2009 |
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Pinnacle, Regis Partner for Teacher Education Program |
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Schools Invited To Apply For Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Assessment Pilot; Deadline is Jan. 15, 2009 |
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Number of National Board Certified Teachers Continues to Grow in Colorado |
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School Accountability Report deems WCA 'excellent' |
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Report: Charter school teachers paid less |
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Band, directors and parents are truly amazing |
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Life takes Visa In a Pueblo promotion, the Academy Network - a collection of charter schools in Pueblo and Colorado Springs - offered parents $100 Visa gift certificates and a chance to win a car or thousands in gift cards if they enrolled their kids in a Cesar Chavez school by Oct. 1. That just so happens to be the date of the head count that determines per-pupil state funding for schools. |
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Grand County schools earn mixed grades in state reports East Grand Middle, Fraser Valley Elementary, Grand Lake Elementary, Indian Peaks Charter, Middle Park High and West Grand High have at least one thing in common. They each received "high" academic performance scores on their 2007-2008 school accountability reports. |
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Emerson Middle School may become a 'space academy' The Edison Learning company did not apply to renew its charter, so the charter school will close at the end of the school year. |
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Steamboat schools score well on accountability report ...while Soda Creek Elementary School and North Routt Community Charter School's sixth, seventh and eighth grades were labeled "high." The charter school's first through fifth grades were ranked "average." |
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Report cards across Weld remain mostly unchanged |
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Woodrow Wilson Teacher Named 'Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year' |
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School report cards show little change, offer new measurements |
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Littleton Public Schools rated high, excellent |
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Greeley-Evans District 6 receives mostly passing grades in new report cards |
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Dig deep into school performance, data If you think fresh, young teachers have the most to offer your child, you might want to check out The Classical Academy, a charter school in Academy School District 20 with strong academic performance. |
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Five SVVSD schools among top 8 percent in state |
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Bennet possible Obama cabinet pick |
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American Academy Charter School |
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Third Day of Charter Christmas - CSAPs |
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3 Colorado Charter Schools Make List of America's Best High Schools Three Colorado charter schools have been recognized in the 2008 list of America's Best High Schools, released today by U.S. News & World Report. Ridgeview Classical Schools in Fort Collins was the highest ranking Colorado school at number 15 on the list. Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette made the list for the second consecutive year at number 69. Both are the only two Colorado schools listed in the top 70. |
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Ridgeview Makes Top Schools List |
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Peak to Peak gets third 'top school' honor |
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Mill Levy Calculations Will Be Sent to Districts Next Week Commissioner of Education Dwight D. Jones today said Colorado's 178 local school districts will receive mill levy calculations early next week, following the Colorado Supreme Court order today that allows the Colorado Department of Education to proceed under the terms spelled out in Senate Bill 07-199. |
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Parents want charter at Ames |
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Charter school buys Longmont property |
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NASA Invites Young Engineers To Student Launch Initiative |
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Educator prepared to kiss horse |
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Emerson charter could reopen as space, technology school |
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Emerson recommended as 'focus school' It has been run as a charter school by the New York-based Edison Learning Company, which did not apply to renew its charter at the school. |
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Cash incentives for enrollment may be banned The chairman of the House Education Committee isn't pleased with a Pueblo charter school's recent marketing plan to boost student enrollment. |
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Creede School Board turns down charter school |
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Justice girls forced to practice outside |
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DPS retirement system OK for now |
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Republican party still alive in Colorado |
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OPINION: Change for the better |
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Teacher Pleads Guilty To Attempted Sex Assault |
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DPS board closes school's doors, opens others |
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DPS board to vote on future of campus sharing |
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KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy wins award |
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Merrifield stays Chairman of House Education Committee |
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Charterizers from hell reserve seat for Merrifield |
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Avon students learn to make healthy choices |
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EL POMAR AWARDS: Springs Conservatory honored to the tune of $15000 |
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Head of House panel replaced; new path on health care cited |
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New charter school approved for D-11 A new charter school with a classical core curriculum was approved Tuesday to open next fall in Colorado Springs. The Thomas MacLaren School, formerly called Veritas Academy, will start with grades 6-9 next year and plans to add a high school grade yearly until it has a full 6th grade to 12th grade program. |
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Jeffco schools schedule interest sessions |
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The second day of charter school Christmas |
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More Boulder Valley students open-enroll |
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Aspen Community School: A learning community For nearly 40 years, ACS has existed in Woody Creek as an education alternative for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. But in the process of transforming from the dream of a few parents into a viable charter school, it has had to adapt to today's educational realities - in everything from its business model to its educational model. In some ways, like the kids it teaches, it has grown up. |
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Some shocks in Denver Public Schools school-sharing plan At Smiley Middle School in northeast Denver, parents learned that a charter school serving grades six through 12 would be moving in next fall. |
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guest commentary Putting education - not unions - first |
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DPS shared campuses include closure of Rishel |
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List of schools to share space released tonight Denver Public Schools leaders will announce tonight which city schools must share their buildings with new programs next fall - and the list contains some surprises. |
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DPS unveils campus sharing plan, school closure |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news |
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The first day of charter Christmas |
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Groff, Carroll selections give hope to school choice supporters "If the Democrats are going to be in charge in Colorado, they could not have picked two leaders friendlier to school choice and charter schools," said Ben DeGrow, a policy analyst for the Golden-based Independence Institute. |
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State's charter schools abuzz over Obama Hundreds of charter school advocates who gathered in an Aurora hotel last week for the Colorado League of Charter Schools' annual conference were buzzing about Obama's support of charters, despite the criticism it has drawn from some teachers' union members. |
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Denver plans shared-school campuses |
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Douglas County, 3A, 3B...3C? Our charter schools are parent driven, but district run. With the help of people like you and me, nearly 3,500 kids in Douglas County are getting a high quality education. With parent volunteers and creative solutions many charter schools are built, filled, and operating on a shoestring budget--yet yielding superb students that are ready for higher education and a bright future. The 2006-07 assessment reports are available on the DCSD website and it will show you that not a single student dropped out of one of our district's charter schools. |
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Kids turn out for Obama in Eagle County Students at the Eagle County Charter Academy held their own private election. Each class at the school was a "state" in the electoral college. |
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Despite across the board losses, GOP holds on to State Board of Ed. Littleton said she hoping Schaffer was headed to Washington and thought Hudak could potentially do a lot more damage to the school choice and charter school movement in the state legislature that she would have on the board. Littleton said she considers school choice and charter schools to be one of the most important reasons she is on the board. |
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Carroll, Groff to head Colorado legislature |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news |
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Despite housing lag, schools see growth |
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Congressional roundup: Two new Jews, but no rabbi |
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DPS aim: 'Capture' more kids Of the 1906 high school-age students in the area, about 1400 attend JFK, and another 400 attend nearby Southwest Early College Charter School. |
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Report notes popularity of charter in District 20 |
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OPINION: On the subject of change... |
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Delta County schools receive accreditation Each of the three schools implemented recommendations from the League of Charter Schools after onsite audits. |
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Charter teacher praise |
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Parents support new charter school proposal |
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Nature School not ready for charter status |
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Report assesses K-12 online learning Similarly, Colorado offers the state-led Colorado Online Learning program, as well as numerous full-time district programs and charter schools. |
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Justice High gets approval for more students |
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Board denies school |
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They're taking care of business |
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Pooch helps Eagle County kids read |
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Teachers must be mum about their politics |
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Charter school aimed at struggling kids The Atlas Preparatory School would be patterned after several Colorado charter schools that have had measurable success with at-risk kids, and it would join a handful of others nationwide that focus on that population. |
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Charter school aimed at struggling kids The Atlas Preparatory School would be patterned after several Colorado charter schools that have had measurable success with at-risk kids, and it would join a handful of others nationwide that focus on that population. |
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A tale of two schools: Valor Christian High School and Ridge View Academy |
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Charter school speed with SPED |
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FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news Four public meetings are planned to gather input on the restructuring of Emerson-Edison Junior Charter Academy in Colorado Springs School District 11. |
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Beaver Creek Halloween event benefits Eagle County Charter Academy |
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D-11 Seeks Input on School Closures |
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D-11 eyeing variable-interest certificates A proposal that could cut the losses Colorado Springs School District 11 has suffered because of volatile financial markets will go before the Board of Education at Wednesday's regular meeting. |
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Existing Staff Will Fill Two New Key Positions Created by S.B. 212 The Colorado Department of Education today announced that two |
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Candidates McCain and Obama Praise Public Charter Schools in Final Debate It was the last question of 2008 Presidential debates posed to the candidates. In education, "we trail most the countries of the world--what do you intend to do about it?" Senators John McCain and Barack Obama agreed on one thing: High quality charter schools are making a difference for students and need to be expanded. |
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School lawsuit moves to Colo. Supreme Court The suit also points to a lack of funding for capital construction projects and questions the fiscal advisability of charter schools and schools of choice. |
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Colorado motorcycle rides, runs, and rallies A ride to benefit the James Irwin Charter School Library will be held Saturday, with registration at 9 a.m. This 1st Annual Ride to Read event will run up to Bishop Castle and back. |
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Charter school shares curriculum plan Proposed public charter school Trinidad International Academy (TIA) held its first public meeting Thursday night to explain the curriculum and operational details that would govern the school should its application be approved by the local district. |
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Colorado Model Content Standards Stakeholders Meet Friday, Oct. 17 in Denver Key stakeholders will gather for a fourth time on Friday, Oct. 17 as part of the ongoing process to review and revise the state's model content standards-descriptions of what every student is expected to learn by subject and grade. |
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The Charter School Package Charter schools are public schools, so there too, it is just a matter of flavor. |
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Charter school offers students $100 to enroll at school Pueblo City Schools says its up in arms about a marketing attempt by a charter school to lure students away from the district. Cesar Chavez Academy offered students one hundred bucks for free to enroll at their school and the the school district is outraged. |
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Are you looking for a new school? Collegiate Academy of Colorado, a K-12, Jefferson County Public, Charter School is accepting students for second semester of the 2008-2009 school year. We are also beginning the process of enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year. |
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Ballot Issues: St. Vrain issue 3A Shall St. Vrain Valley School District No. RE-1J taxes be increased $16.5 million in tax collection year 2009, and by whatever amounts as may be collected annually thereafter from a mill levy increase of not to exceed 7.4 mills as determined annually by the board, for educational purposes, (which shall include the district's existing four charter schools)... |
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Would You Switch Schools for 100 Bucks? Charters (even though they're public schools) and school districts have rocky relationships in parts of Colorado, but the Chavez network and Pueblo City are particularly prickly about each other. Chavez even has sued the district, claiming its proposed bond issue shouldn't go on the ballot because the network wasn't given sufficient opportunity to bid for money. |
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City Schools Dislike Charters Tactics Pueblo City Schools officials weren't happy to see a competitor offering $100 to any student who would transfer in time for the official count this year. |
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Libraries Awarded Grants for Key Projects The Colorado State Library today announced grants to 16 school, public and academic libraries for innovative projects designed to improve library services and life-long learning. |
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Liberty kids get high-tech field trip to CSU Approximately 60 fifth-grade students from Liberty Common School ventured over to the Colorado State University campus to see the elements they have been studying in action as part of their monthlong chemistry unit. |
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Peak to Peak students learn science of climate change "You live in the most interesting time on Earth since the discovery of fire," declared University of Colorado professor Jim White at Peak to Peak Charter School on Monday morning. |
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Group urges Colo. schools to 'get smart' Studies indicate that Denver schools that opened in the last six years - like West Denver Preparatory and KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy - out-perform schools with similar populations, according to reports. |
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ELECTION 2008: PROFILES But the 33-year-old Princeton graduate also founded two charter schools for at-risk students and the three-campus New American School, which enrolls teenagers from other countries. |
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First-Of-Its-Kind Study Reveals Higher Student Achievement at Colorado High Schools That Offer More Arts A first-of-its-kind study by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and the Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) reveals that public high schools offering more arts education have higher academic achievement, regardless of student ethnicity or socioeconomic status. |
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Peak to Peak to host Climate and Policy Summit Lucky for him, when Gunsagar steps into school Monday, he'll be welcomed by 30 speakers ready to discuss environmental science at Peak to Peak's Climate and Policy Summit. |
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Bob Schaffer vs. Mark Udall Bob and Maureen have collaborated on everything from coaching their kids in soccer to starting the first charter school in Fort Collins called Liberty Common School. |
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Charter school enrollment for mummies (& daddies) "How did your kid get into that Charter School?" If I had a nickel for every time I heard this question I could personally offset the school district's budget deficit. There is such confusion and misconception in regards to a charter school's enrollment policies. |
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Kindergarten booming in Eagle County If you count the New America School, a new charter school in Gypsum for high school students learning English, total increase in school enrollment this year is around 544. Onofrio didn't count the school in growth comparisons, as the school wasn't up and running by the official count time last year. |
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Re-4 misses federal benchmarks And although the district as a whole didn't make the cut, several individual schools did. Grandview Elementary, Skyview Elementary and the Windsor Charter Academy all passed. |
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Arts Education Study to be Released Monday, Oct. 6 The Colorado Department of Education and The Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) will host a news conference Monday, Oct. 6 to release the results of a study on the relationship between academic achievement and arts education. The news conference will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 6 in the first-floor board room at the Colorado Department of Education, 201 E. Colfax Ave. |
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Foxnut Sushi in Beaver Creek gets sassy Friday Team Sassy includes the following local teachers: Peyton Schlichting (Eagle County Charter Academy), Jennifer Loper (ECCA), Steve Loper (ECCA), Lee Stevenson (ECCA) Jason Mills (ECCA), Beth Cooney (Edwards Elementary) and KC Lasher (Vail Mountain School). |
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Pioneer Charter School Teacher Awarded Office Max's "A Day Made Better" Winner Pioneer Charter School 1st grade teacher, Rocio Vargas, was one of Office Max's "A Day Made Better" winners. She was surprised by OfficeMax representatives with classroom resources and supplies worth over $1,000. The school was asked to nominate one teacher whose dedication and passion merited special recognition. |
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Schools have some good news, some bad news The third area school on the state list, Emerson-Edison, is believed to be the first charter school in the state to get to state-mandated restructure planning. The D-11 school board recently approved funding for the plan, and indicated its displeasure with having to pay to help pick up the pieces of a failed charter school. |
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School Count Day: Kissing Frogs, Free iPods "So we try to encourage kids to be here on that day because it's very important," said Dominic DeFelice, superintendent of the New America Charter School in Northglenn. |
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Elementary schools meet federal standards Each of the middle schools had actually made federal goals last year - but this year, only Eagle County Charter Academy made it. |
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Fresh ideas in the lunchroom Summit Middle Charter School in Boulder has bypassed the government system entirely. Two years ago, after parents asked for better-tasting, healthier, locally grown, and more organic lunches, the school contracted with Fast and Fresh Foods, chef Connie Gordon's cafeteria catering company. |
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Rising Expectations, Changes in Calculation Formula Causes Drop in Statewide AYP; Some Title I Schools Meet The Challenge Sixty percent of schools in Colorado made Adequate Yearly Progress targets in 2008, a drop from 75 percent in 2007. |
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Charter School Moms and Pit Bulls What is the difference between a charter school mom and a pit bull? |
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Stone Creek kids raise $20K Stone Creek Charter School raised more than $20000 last week at its third annual Jog-A-Thon. Students earned money by collecting sponsors and running a lap around the parking lot. |
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5 honored for success in light of hardships Sashea Sandoval and Ana Temus both attend Boulder Preparatory High School, an alternative charter high school in the Boulder Valley School District. |
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Turnaround for Manual High School Manual High, which reopened in August 2007 after being shuttered for chronic failure, has borrowed practices of successful charter schools in an attempt to improve - including giving each student an adult advocate. |
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Wednesday is "count day" at schools Colorado Springs Early Colleges, a state-chartered school, began offering that last year and this year has more than 400 students, he said. Other charter schools in the region are forging partnerships with colleges to help students get college credits or even earn an associates degree while still in high school. |
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'This is a model for education' "You need the grassroots efforts, like charter schools. "This school is an exception," he said of Galileo. "You're not going to reform education with one school in Colorado Springs. But it's a start." |
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North Star charter school to open second campus North Star Academy, a charter school at 16700 Keystone Blvd., Parker, is planning to open a second campus in Highlands Ranch, and will hold a live lottery event to fill the approximately 425 openings. |
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CDE Will Support State Hiring Freeze One request was to freeze hiring among all state agencies. In addition, Gov. Ritter specifically asked the Colorado Department of Education to delay grants to expand full-day kindergarten facilities. |
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You Tube Video - Charters Change Lives There are thousands of students whose lives have dramatically changed since enrolled in a charter. Their voices are being heard and we should all pay attention. Check out their compelling stories as told by charter parents themselves. |
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New organization promises to revamp Colorado education Board member Van Schoales says the group will focus on start-up programs such as new charter schools, new pilot schools, or new schools seeking autonomy from the district. |
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Hopeful charter board meets with SVVSD board Which comes first, the charter or the charter school? Organizers of the proposed St. Vrain Community Montessori School are juggling that question as they continue in the process of getting the St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education's approval to open a charter school next fall. |
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Hasan, Scanlan talk schools Rep. Christine Scanlan and Ali Hasan, candidates for Eagle County's state House seat, debated children's issues Thursday in Eagle. |
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Friday Folder The Classical Academy, a public charter school in Academy District 20, breaks ground today on a kindergarten-through-12th-grade building being constructed at Pikes Peak Community College's Rampart Range Campus, 11995 Highway 83. |
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Final tally on bonds: $2.5 billion $2,559,400,000. No, that's not the golden parachute for some disgraced CEO, it's the total amount of construction bond issues that 25 Colorado school districts are asking their voters to approve in the Nov. 4 election. |
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D-11 school may lose its charter Emerson-Edison Junior Charter Academy is in danger of losing its charter, and the school could be restructured or even closed next year because of low test scores. |
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UNC To House New Education Institute For Colorado "Talking about what things are working, whether it is a charter school, a regular public school," said Todd. "Whatever those different kinds of ways of educating our children and opening those opportunities." |
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Boards meet to discuss charter school intentions The board of directors for the proposed charter school, Trinidad International Academy (TIA), met Sept. 16 with the board of education for Trinidad School District No. 1 for a presentation by the TIA board of directors concerning the intentions and possible direction of the charter school. |
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CDE Seeks Greater Participation in Online Survey For Definitions Surrounding Colorado Content Standards The Colorado Department of Education is asking Colorado citizens to assist in defining 21st Century Skills and Abilities, Early School Readiness, Postsecondary Readiness and Workforce Readiness in a survey available through October 10, 2008, by clicking here. |
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OfficeMax Announces Schools Where Teachers Will Be Recognized on Oct. 1 1,300 teachers across the country have been selected by their school's |
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DPS's bond measure biggest in state history Some charter-school advocates are upset the district is dedicating only $20 million for "new programs" to be housed in existing buildings and don't have a separate charter fund. |
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Charters get short stick According to Jim Griffin, president of the Colorado League of Charters Schools, only about $15 million of the bond proceeds have been allocated to the metro area's 56 charters. That's only about 0.8 percent of the total going to more than 5 percent of the students. (There are approximately 21,000 charter-school students among these school districts and roughly 386,000 students in all.) |
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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR Joe Williams He continues to talk about merit pay, he continues to talk about his support for charter schools . . . He's sort of taking a very pragmatic approach. |
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School 'bails out' principal, raises $42,000 By 4 p.m., Lucas had done more than make his bail - he raised almost $42,000 as part of the annual giving campaign at Rocky Mountain Academy. And everyone - students, teachers, parents, staff and Lucas himself - had a great time. |
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Cesar Chavez School Network asks judge to remove city schools' two tax questions Two local charter schools and a small group of parents are suing to keep a pair of school tax measures off the November ballot. |
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Stone Creek runs for funds The Stone Creek Charter School will hold its third annual Jog-A-Thon at the school on Wednesday at 10:30 am, with a pizza party to follow at noon. |
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Charter Schools Focus on Choice With roughly 3 percent of Aurora Public Schools children attending a charter school in the district, APS officials say they see less per-pupil money going to traditional schools. But charter schools say they are offering choices to families who feel the traditional schools are failing them or that charters offer learning above and beyond what can be found in APS. |
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OPINION: D-11 officials beg for funds District 11 officials don't like the competition posed by Hope Online Charter School, so they are suing the Colorado board of education. |
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Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Makes Progress on Full-Day Kindergarten Program At a meeting held today, the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board made final revisions to the emergency rules for the Full-Day Kindergarten program. They will adopt these rules at their next meeting, scheduled for Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. |
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New DPS ratings put 35 schools "on probation" Another standout in student progress is West Denver Preparatory charter middle school, which led all DPS schools in academic growth. |
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30 Denver Schools on Probation Ten schools were rated "distinguished" and 30 were given probationary marks under Denver's new score-card system that ranks each school based on a broad array of measures. |
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Anita Foxworth Named Director of Achievement Gap; Content Specialists Appointed for Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies Commissioner Dwight D. Jones today named four individuals who will strengthen the department's team of curricular experts and one who will lead the effort to close the achievement gap. |
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YOUTUBE GETS IT. "Chartering New Options in Education" Video "Chartering New Options in Education" is a five-and-a-half minute, rollicking look at the charter school environment in Texas by the group Empower Texans. The video brings viewers the reality of what a charter school is, why they were created and provides a glimpse into some of the obstacles faced by charters in Texas. |
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Letter to Editor: New charter school will fill void for D-11 students, parents I am one of the founders of Veritas Academy, and I write to correct many of the inaccuracies in Lisa Mieritz's column, "'Innovative' schools keep money for kids" (Other Voices, Sept. 5). Mieritz incorrectly described Veritas Academy as a "Greek/Latin charter high school." Actually, Veritas will be a classical, liberal arts school in D-11 for grades six-12. It will open in fall 2009 with grades six-nine, and then grow by one grade each year thereafter. |
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New school offers entrepreneurial education On Aug. 18, a group of freshman students embarked on a journey that would forever change their lives. These students walked into the Denver Venture School, a tuition-free public high school that offers a rigorous liberal-arts academic program that will prepare students for a four-year college or university. As part of the academic program, students will explore the challenges and rewards of becoming an entrepreneur. |
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School briefs - Sept. 14 Peak to Peak Charter School was among nine Boulder Valley School District schools named to a list of "Denver's Top Schools" in the September issue of 5280 magazine. |
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District 11 program aims at 'fifth-year grads' "If we don't do something for students on a fifth year, then they're going to go to charter schools that do that," Superintendent Terry Bishop told the D-11 board at a recent work session. |
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Nine Boulder Valley schools make top 5280 list Peak to Peak was another Lafayette school that made this year's 5280 list. Last year, 5280 named the charter school the best high school in the Denver metro area. Earlier this year, Peak to Peak also made it onto Newsweek's Top 100 High School list, with the magazine ranking it as the 40th best high school in the nation. And U.S. News & World Report ranked the high school 47th in the nation. |
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District 12 board votes on lobby issues Charter schools and juvenile offenders are two issues members of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools board of education hope the Colorado Association of School Boards use as part of its lobbying platform when approaching the state legislature in January. |
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Rockies pitcher makes appearance at local deaf school If a good school assembly is supposed to be enjoyable, inspirational and educational, then Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Jason Grilli's visit to the Rocky Mountain Deaf School on Sept. 4 was a three-run homer. |
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Group hopes to open charter school A group of concerned locals are planning to open a public charter school in Trinidad. The school, Trinidad International Academy (TIA), would be open to all local children of school age, have 12 grades, and is currently scheduled to open for the 2009-2010 school year. |
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Grand County school enrollment mixed: up in the east, down in the west Enrollment is up 20 students at Fraser Valley Elementary; 17 at Grand Lake Elementary; 20 at Indian Peaks Charter School; and 25 at Middle Park High. |
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New report shows District 6's progress up and down In its Annual Yearly Progress report, 21 of Greeley-Evans District 6's 37 schools, including charter and nontraditional schools, are meeting or exceeding the state's proficiency target goals in reading and math. |
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Board of Education Approves Legislative Priorities for 2009; Supports Designation of November 2008 As Homeless Youth Awareness Month The Colorado State Board of Education today approved its priorities for |
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Bond backers banking on help from big names The claim that the DPS bond will "benefit every school" is hotly contested by Jim Griffin, head of the Colorado League of Charter Schools. |
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Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Adopts Facility Construction Guidelines As Emergency Rules At a meeting held today, the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board adopted the Facility Construction Guidelines as emergency rules for the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) legislation. |
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VALERIO and STOCKER: Saints bask in glow of victory It doesn't get any easier for Jefferson, which lost its season opener to Sheridan 40-0. The Saints play The Classical Academy on Friday, a team that has won its first two games by scores of 40-0 (St. Mary's) and 54-6 (CIVA Charter) in Colorado Springs. |
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GERGEN & VANOUREK: Bold school reform missing They need policy environments that are dramatically more conducive to innovation and excellence (including meaningful standards, a policy embracing choice and competition, full funding for charter schools and other innovative models, astute deregulation, and results-based accountability). |
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Student Assessment Gets Results at Odyssey "What is powerful about our growth in test scores is that we do not 'teach to the test.'" says Marcia Fulton, Director of the Odyssey School. "We believe having the best practices in the classroom is the best way to get results." |
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Colorado State Board of Education Honors 22 Students with Perfect ACT Scores CDE News Release - September 9, 2008 The Colorado State Board of Education and the Colorado Department of Education will honor 22 students from across the state who earned a perfect score on the American College Test (ACT) during the 2007-08 school year. |
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Raptor program-linked school reapplies for charter Larry Neal, president of the Poudre school board, said he believes the school's environmental focus is timely. "It reflects Colorado, and I think it reflects the current state of social thinking," he said. "Schools along that line would be pretty well received." |
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Obama embraces charter schools in education plan Last school year, White Hat operated 38 Life Skills schools geared toward high-school dropouts in Ohio, Colorado, Michigan and Florida. |
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US election: Obama calls for doubled funding for charter schools Under his new plan, Obama would double federal funding for charter schools, paying particular attention to "high-needs" school districts, and limiting funding to states that "improve accountability" for the schools and intervene in failing charter schools. The federal government currently spends about $200m a year on charter schools. |
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School-choice advocates praise McCain, hope he can deliver Jim Griffin, president of Colorado League of Charter Schools, says he is simply glad to see both political parties starting to take notice of the school choice movement. "Hearing both presidential candidates give their support to charter schools is amazing," said Griffin. "It's great to see, I can't imagine 10 or 15 years ago charters getting the attention they're getting today." |
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Trinidad residents plan charter school Today, nearly 150 charter schools in Colorado serve more than 60000 public school students. Malone said that the Trinidad charter will be open to everybody. |
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Charter schools could get piece of the pie Four charter schools could receive a share if Pueblo voters agree to pay higher school taxes. The Pueblo City Schools Board of Education voted 5-0 in a special meeting Thursday to give one mill of a nearly 15-mill tax increase to the district's charter schools, but rejected their requests for approximately $17 million in bond issue funds. |
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Charter schools left out of bond proposals "There's still $2 billion in bonds potentially being issued this year for public school capital construction needs in metro Denver," said Jim Griffin, president of the Colorado League of Charter Schools. "With less than one-half of one percent going - ending up benefiting the charters." |
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Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Approves Facility Construction Guidelines At a meeting held Wednesday (Sept. 3), the Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board approved the proposed Facility Construction Guidelines. The guidelines will be used in a statewide assessment of every public school building in the state, including charter schools. |
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Obama Supports Charter Schools. Why Can't Richmond? The entrenched opposition here to even a modest attempt at innovation underscores a point made by one of the panelists at the Ed Challenge for Change symposium in Denver, just prior to the Democratic National Convention: When the children's agenda bumps up against the adults' agenda, the "adult agenda wins too often." |
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Castle Pines North council votes to continue with rezoning "Working closely with developer Chris Fellows, our metro district and the American Academy Charter School, we have our work cut out for us." |
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District 58 Candidate Hagan Stops in Telluride for Visit Hagan was also the president of the Montrose League of Women Voters and was the co-founder of Passage Charter School, a school designed for pregnant or parenting teens. This school, she said, is an accomplishment she is "most proud of." |
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Real Estate The Flagstaff Academy has purchased a 62,200-square-foot building at 2040 Miller Drive with plans to relocate its charter school in Longmont by fall 2009. |
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Front Range Briefs The board is expected to repeal last week's resolutions, then vote on new resolutions to clarify that only existing charter schools will benefit from the new revenue if voters approve the tax increases, district spokesman John Poynton said. |
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Nature charter school to reapply for charter through district A proposed environmental charter school previously denied chartering rights in March by the Colorado Charter School Institute will reapply through the Poudre School District and CSI. |
| Teach kids "ATM" doesn't mean cash for "at the mall" Denver Post - August 30, 2008 Q: What is the mission of the Denver Venture School? How is Junior Achievement involved? A: The Denver Venture School is a new charter school that focuses on business and entrepreneurship for ninth- to 12th-graders. The school's mission is to enable a diverse group of students to achieve academic, social and career success. |
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Healthy start to school The Windsor Charter Academy will begin serving hot lunch on Oct. 6. A new cafeteria built over the summer was part of a large construction project for the school. |
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Commissioner Dwight D. Jones Appoints Members of the School Leadership Academy Board Commissioner of Education Dwight D. Jones today appointed members of the new School Leadership Academy Board. The board was created through legislation calling for a School Leadership Academy Program, including a principal academy to improve the recruitment, training and ongoing professional development of school leadership in Colorado. |
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Dems unified at convention, delegates say On Monday, Cobb-Hunter took a tour of a Colorado charter school with State Superintendent of Education Dr. Jim Rex that left her impressed. She liked that fact that quality schools were a priority in community development and the options existing within the Colorado public school system. |
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Their future, in any language It's a typical day at the Global Village Academy, a second-year charter school in Aurora that has caught the wave of language immersion - driven largely by a gathering interest in producing students fluent in Chinese. |
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Students get a lesson in peaceful protest School was in session Tuesday at Tent State University, not only for protesters but also for students from the Odyssey Charter School. |
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Funding for Charter Schools - Editorial Seven Denver/Metro school districts are placing bond questions on this November's ballot. Collectively, they may be seeking a combined total of $1.9 billion dollars from voters. Yet only a handful of the 56 charter schools in those districts will ever see any support for their facility needs should these ballot questions pass. |
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St. Vrain to set ballot The district increased the mill-levy override from $14.6 million to add programming options and account for funds going to charter schools. |
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Final Report - Americans' Real Attitudes on Education Americans strongly embrace having charter school and other choice options other than their assigned schools, and believe that multiple avenues of delivery are best, according to a compendium of polling released today by The Center for Education Reform. |
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Lesson plan: Put kids over teachers The principles, to those observing education in recent years, don't seem altogether new. Among them: Universal access to preschool. Expanded access to charter schools. Extended school days and school years. |
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Prominent Education Reformers Call for Longer School Days, Performance-Driven Teacher Pay, Expanded Public School Choice America's leading voices on education reform joined in Denver to call on Democratic leaders to steer public education in a new direction. On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, more than two dozen progressive elected officials, education reform advocates, school leaders and civil rights groups from across the country gathered at the Denver Art Museum to release the Ed Challenge for Change, which highlights new ideas for closing America's devastating achievement gap. |
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Good News for Schools is in Short Supply Also considered were proposals to add staff and funding to the Nevada Education Department, without major changes to the State Board of Education's authority over charter schools, or to create a separate charter schools committee that would report to the state. But the committee ultimately preferred a version based on the Colorado Charter Schools Institute, created by that state's lawmakers, to sponsor, oversee and support charter schools. |
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Standards Review Subcommittees Need You! Educators, parents, business leaders, community members and all members of the public are invited to join an important conversation about the future of education in Colorado. |
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Avon charter school charged up There's a lot of fresh faces at Stone Creek Charter School, which will be starting its third year with a lot of confidence, new programs, new teachers and a whole new grade of students. |
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New and planned development fills northeast side About 45 acres owned by Colorado Springs developer Jim Morley. A charter school is planned; other possible uses include medical offices and miniwarehouses. |
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Washington DC to Host June 2009 National Charter Schools Conference The 9th Annual National Charter Schools Conference will be held in Washington, DC, June 20-23, 2009 with more than 3,000 participants expected to attend, according to the event's organizer, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. |
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Other Voices: A letter to the APS board of education My son will be in first grade this year at Aurora Academy, my daughter is beginning kindergarten. We're thrilled with our little school and couldn't believe our good fortune when we won the lottery to be admitted there. Because of Aurora Academy, we're committed to staying put until our eldest son finishes eighth grade. He's getting a solid education in a diverse community, neither sequestered in a place of privilege and wealth nor flailing in a school characterized by poverty and failure. We're content. But we are already making plans to move away when ninth grade rolls around. It's not something we want to do, it just seems inevitable. |
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2008 Colorado Growth Model School District Data Released The Colorado Department of Education today released 2008 Colorado |
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Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Resolves To Move "Expeditiously" The Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board has approved |
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools to Co-Sponsor Out Burst! The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools today announced it has joined as an official co-sponsor of Outburst!, a series of six high-tech interactive civic forums for young people focusing on national public policy issues. |
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Fitch Rates Poudre School Dist R-1, Colorado $43MM GOs 'AA' Due to strong academic performance, the district is home to a limited number of charter schools. Transfer students from surrounding districts further add to the district's non-charter school enrollment base. |
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New Nampa charter school wins approval Moffett's research led him to a private school in Michigan and a charter school in Colorado that incorporated classical curriculum in their lessons. |
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McCain Is the Pro-Choice Candidate Most important, charter school students often outperform other public school students. The Center for Education Reform reports that last year in Colorado, 73.3% of third- through eight-grade charter school students "performed at or above proficiency in reading, as opposed to 67.7% of conventional public school students." |
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Jim Griffin: Problems with Charter School Editorial The writer of the Aug. 6 editorial, "Charter school structure makes tax elections hard," may be onto something regarding the disconnect between charter schools and local school districts during bond elections. It seems many school districts view their charter schools as "competition," and as such, are not about to do anything to give this so-called "competition" a leg up. |
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New school year underway for DPS kids, teachers While many metro-area kids went back to school last week, Monday morning is the first day of class for Denver Public Schools students. And this year there are some changes and new issues facing the district, the kids and everyone in between. |
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Board debates $454 million bond proposal Denver school board members continued Thursday to debate a $454 million bond proposal that, if approved by voters, would touch every public school in the city. |
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Denver charter school getting better results with same budget Today, West Denver Prep ranks No. 1 among the city's 44 middle schools in the academic growth of its students. It stages annual lotteries to select pupils from an overflow of applicants and, from those not chosen, tears are not unusual. |
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Partnership answers academic problems Already, PPCC has reached agreements with two other charter schools, Colorado Springs Early Colleges and 21st Century Charter, to use its curricula and certify teachers as adjunct college faculty, which allows their students to earn college and high school credit for a single course. |
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Platte Canyon school board OKs ballot question The Platte Canyon School District will be asking voters to approve a mill levy increase at the upcoming election in November. The board members approved the ballot question at their regularly scheduled board of education meeting on Monday, Aug. 11. |
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Lake George Charter School chooses new principal Pat Lewis was introduced as the new principal at the Lake George Charter School in an Aug. 11 meeting of the Fairplay-based Re-2 School District Board of Education. |
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Board of Education Approves Recommendations for School Counselor Grant Program The Colorado State Board of Education today approved 10 grants totaling $2.2 million to boost effective school-based counseling services across the state. |
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TRUTH TEST: Anti-Schaffer ad critiqued This stems from a vote on the Colorado Board of Education as it regarded the charter of a school called Life Skills of Denver. The charter is what's being called a "taxpayer contract" in the commercial. |
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New educators welcomed to the district She landed in Colorado looking for that perfect first-year teaching job. And she believes she has found it at Windsor Charter Academy. |
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PitCo discusses local issues with neighboring county But the commissioners balked at agreeing to financially support a new building for a growing charter school in Marble. |
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RE-1 Valley gets student service grant Other recipients of the new grants include: Alamosa RE-11J, Aurora Public Schools, Centennial BOCES - Weld Opportunity School, Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Denver Area Youth Services Bryant Street Academy, Holyoke Alternative School, Jeffco Schools, Justice High School Charter, Mapleton Public Schools, Montrose County School District RE-1J, St. Vrain Valley School District, Summit School District, Trinidad School District and Youth and Family Academy Center. |
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CSAP a Mixed Bag for Clear Creek And while the district's CSAP scores remain relatively stagnant this year and in some cases decreased, the Georgetown Charter School saw significant improvements for the second year in a row. |
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SVVSD bond issue below $200M? The building is housing Twin Peaks Charter School, but the district is taking possession again in 2009. |
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APS Putting Bond and Mill Levy Measures Before Voters Five Aurora charter schools sent a letter July 31 asking the board to delay their vote, saying they were not given appropriate notice of the election and were not able to submit proposals for funding for their capital construction projects. |
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School leader shows refugees the way to school The family of Kiza Yussufu fled the troubles of the Democratic Republic of Congo to find something better in Colorado. Now, Kiza is prepared to do whatever it takes to get an education at a new charter school. |
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"One hour's pay for the kids of LA" I had an experience in the past couple of weeks that really evolved my thinking about charter schools. I used to think charters were the epitome of all evil, and just created solely to bring down public schools. After my experience, I find I need to alter that view a lot. |
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Democratic candidates target No Child Left Behind Democrats seeking Colorado's 2nd Congressional District seat would sharply restructure the No Child Left Behind Act. ...They also would boost federal funding for education, now about 8 percent of Colorado's school budget. |
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Brighton Collegiate to host "Meet and Greet" Brighton Collegiate High School will host a "Meet and Greet" open house at the school for the general public on Monday, August 11, 6-7 p.m. The open house will provide the public, including current and potential students and their parents, the opportunity to informally meet and converse with faculty and board members. |
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Visions of schools given to DPS Twenty letters of intent for new school programs for Denver's 2009-10 school year include proposals from successful charter school organizations KIPP, Cesar Chavez Academy and Edison Schools. |
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Students miss school but still pass some classes New America Charter schools across the state have been failing to enforce their attendance policies, according to records obtained by 9NEWS. As a result, 504 students at the Lowry campus missed 17,499 full or partial days of school last year. Most of those absences (16,167) were unexcused. |
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Schools score high in state CSAP tests Several Littleton schools in particular experienced great gains between 2007 and 2008. Littleton Prep Charter School saw multiple double digit gains in percentage points, with third-grade math increasing 16 percentage points.... |
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Northglenn Youth Accepted Into Chorale Northglenn resident Michael Valdez, age 10, has been accepted into the Colorado Children's Chorale for the 2008-2009 Apprentice Choir Season. A student at Pinnacle Charter School in Federal Heights, Michael has been on honor roll consistently since Kindergarten. |
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Innovative schools seek DPS affiliation More than a dozen applicants want to become part of Denver Public Schools, including expansions of the successful Cesar Chavez Academy in Pueblo and KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy in Denver. |
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Second Cesar Chavez Academy Opens in Colorado Springs A high-achieving charter school from Pueblo opened its newest location in Colorado Springs Monday. The new Cesar Chavez Academy North opened this morning in the former Holy Trinity catholic school building, which is located near Fillmore and Hancock in Colorado Springs. |
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Opening dates, locations announced for 'Dialog:City' art projects Dialog:City Responses, opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 26, through Aug. 31, PS1 Charter School, 1062 Delaware St.: Work by 12 PS1 Charter School students responds to "Dialog:City" in a show running Aug. 22 through 31. Local teachers and artists participating in the exhibit include Abbey Byrne, Katie Hoffman, Harry Lyrico, Xander Point-Zollo, Elaine Scheffler, Susan Vaho and Ravi Zupa. |
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Business taxes, computer spam top new Colo. laws Silverthorne Democratic Sen. Dan Gibbs' measure requiring the State Board of Education and the State Charter School Institute to enact rules making sure beverages sold or dispensed in schools meet minimum health and nutrition standards. |
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Must public education suffer from Baumol's disease? In Colorado, a movement is afoot to prompt innovation in schooling. The Innovations Schools Act of 2008 provides flexibility to schools in hopes that schools will innovate toward becoming more effective and productive. Leadership at Denver Public Schools has invited staff to create new school models for its district run schools, and has kept the door open to charter schools. |
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DPS can excel Editorial: Alexander Ooms serves on the board of West Denver Preparatory Charter School and is a member of the A+ Citizens Committee |
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Which School District Bond Elections Will Include Charters? This week's edition of Education News Colorado included an editorial by Jim Griffin about the six upcoming bond elections in the Denver/Metro area. (It is the second article down in the newsletter). |
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Schools point to CSAP success One of those "victories" came at Windsor Charter Academy, where third-graders increased from being 96 proficient and advanced in reading to 100 percent proficient and advanced. |
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Officials: CSAP results reveal moderate progress Scores at Pomona High School, Woodland Park High School and Yuma High School all went up 20 to 30 percent. Three charter schools - Aurora Academy, Challenge to Excellence and Odyssey Charter School - all were credited with improving significantly, officials say. |
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St. Vrain schools outperform state averages At Flagstaff Academy charter school in Longmont, no fifth-grade student scored in the unsatisfactory range in the four subjects tested: math, reading, science and writing. |
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Charter school exceeds state average Grand Junction charter school Caprock Academy scored well above almost every state average on the 2007-08 Colorado Student Assessment Program in its first time. |
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CSAP: DPS Gains Celebrated Notable schools: Aurora Academy Charter's eighth-graders jumped from 50 percent proficient or above in reading in 2004 to 93 percent. Douglas County's Challenge to Excellence Charter's eighth-graders improved in reading from 65 percent proficient or above in 2005 to 82 percent. Denver charter The Odyssey School's eighth-graders improved from 57 percent proficient or above in reading in 2007 to 82 percent |
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CSAP Snapshots Pikes Peak area residents don't get to find out how Cesar Chavez Academy's move to Colorado Springs went - in terms of test scores, anyway. The widely heralded charter school from Pueblo is well-known for getting high test scores from classrooms full of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The school opened its first Colorado Springs campus for the 2007-08 school year, but it had classes that were too small to report CSAP scores. |
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No Magic Bullet To Raise State School Test Scores For Steamboat Springs High School, the solution was test, test, and test again. For rural Fowler Elementary in southeast Colorado, making sure students built on their previous successes sent statewide test scores soaring, and for Wyatt-Edison Charter School in Denver, the key was getting parents involved. |
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Big gains in CSAP test scores put DPS in a class by itself Charter vs. noncharter: West Denver Prep, the charter middle school followed by the Rocky Mountain News during the past school year, continued to excel and outperformed DPS on every test. |
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Beating the CSAP Tests The biggest accomplishment in the school district was the Windsor Charter Academy third-graders scoring 100 percent proficient or advanced in the reading category |
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Basalt Middle School to Try Out School Within a School Carruth and Douglass have created the curriculum themselves, using some of the best practices from other school models, they say. They recently visited Skyland Community High School in Denver, which focuses on learning with real-world applications, and the Eagle Rock School in Estes Park, which graduates students based on demonstrated competency rather than "seat time. |
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Communities give teens a voice "I want to give back to the community and be involved, to figure out how it works so you don't feel so removed from what's going on in the city," said Lafayette committee member Evan Casey, who will be a junior at Peak to Peak Charter School this fall. |
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CARROLL: Ironic ad targets Polis No, the stunning part of the indictment is the unions' hostility toward public charter schools, as well as the ludicrous claim that those founded by Polis through The New America School are undermining public education. |
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Business Briefing The Colorado League of Charter Schools hired Nora Flood as vice president of school services and Jeff Park as director of new school development. |
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Virtual Schools, Real Businesses Ron J. Packard, the chief executive of K12, an online education company in Herndon, Va., is adamant that he runs a public school. "We are more public than any other public school in the country," he says. "You don't have to buy a million-dollar house in the suburbs to come to my schools. We take every child who comes, regardless of income, race or ability." |
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Back-to-School Special Delivery: A School Year in a Box! "Our kids can't wait for their Connections Academy back-to-school boxes to arrive," observed Trish Sevits of Colorado Springs, who has two children enrolled in Colorado Connections Academy. "Opening up the big boxes is almost like opening birthday gifts -- it's very exciting and a positive way to start the school year. The kids just love it and I love to see their enthusiasm about school." |
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Ad could signal negative turn in 2nd CD A new commercial attacking Jared Polis' charter school support and plan to revamp No Child Left Behind - the first negative ad in the race - isn't likely to wound him in the progressive, Boulder-area district, analysts say. |
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David Erickson, 1949-2008 During his time in Edwards, David served as both the vice president and the president of the board of the Eagle County Charter Academy, helping the school to secure the land for its first Edwards location as well as its current location in Edwards. |
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Kindergarten: Small child, big decision It helped that her boys attend The Classical Academy, a charter school in Academy School District 20. The Classical Academy calls redshirting "the gift of time" and requires parents with kids born after June 1 of the upcoming school year to talk to school officials before starting them in kindergarten at age 5. The result: 25 percent of the school's kindergarten students this fall will be 6 by the end of August. |
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BARRY NOREEN: Charters join crowd, divert funds to athletics If you can't beat them, become one of them. That's one way of looking at area charter schools that have developed athletic programs. The original rationale for charter schools was that they would be a place where the curriculum could be focused differently, a place where teachers could try innovative approaches. |
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2 Colo. teachers named Holocaust Museum fellows Barbara Figg, a history and government teacher at Mullen High School in Denver, and Jennifer Derosby, a language arts teacher at PSI Charter Middle School in Denver, were among 14 fellows selected in 2008. |
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DPS Considers Asking Voters to Increase Property Taxes The city of Denver is full of old schools with classic facades and architecture. Underneath, many of those buildings are falling apart and in need of repairs. |
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Athletic programs blossom at art schools Colorado Springs School District 11 charter school CIVA (Character, Integrity, Vision and the Arts) dipped a tentative toe into athletics this past spring with an Ultimate Frisbee team. The school, about 200 strong, placed 10th in the state out of 32 teams. |
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Time is ripe to fix education, experts assert In the lobby of one of Denver's sterling charter schools, New York City schools chief Joe Klein, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, state Senate President Peter Groff and Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien, among others, said they would do whatever it takes to push education onto the crowded political agenda this fall |
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Group aims to fashion cure for ailing education system It's going to take such "odd couples" to fix the nation's ailing educational system. That's what a group of educators, politicians and community activists said at a news conference Sunday at the Denver School of Science and Technology as they touted the recently unveiled Education Equality Project. |
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Obama's No-Brainer on Education The irony is, we know what works to close the achievement gap. At the 60 KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools, more than 80 percent of 16,000 randomly selected low-income students go to college, four times the national average for poor kids. While KIPP isn't fully replicable (not enough effective teachers to go around), every low-income school should be measured by how close it gets to that model... |
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A land where teachers are revered It's not that American students are out of control, but there's a level of respect and reverence in the Japanese classroom that was unfamiliar to Stone Creek Charter teacher Tara Goike. |
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State law aimed at aching schools "I would love to get some of that money," said board President MJ Vosburg, adding that a few sites the district oversees -- like Gunnison Valley School and Marble Charter School -- could be the kind of facilities BEST seeks to assist. |
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Jack Krebs, Creating Community With Head, Heart, Hands, and Health As a visiting artist in the schools, he recently worked with Paradox Charter School students in speech communication, drama and theater. |
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LOCAL BRIEFS: Hispanic Institute Thirteen Pueblo-area high school students had a chance to run their own government last week while attending the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session at Colorado State University at Fort Collins.The students came from Centennial, Central, South, East and Dolores Huerta high schools. |
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Melting Pot deserves some praise for helping families This letter is in response to some recent negative comments made towards Windsor Charter Academy and the kind gesture that the Melting Pot is making for the WCA families that have been displaced by the May 22 tornado. |
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Cost overruns send school back to drawing board Monument Academy officials tried to be conservative when estimating costs for a new school near Colorado Highway 105 and Knollwood Drive in Monument. |
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Charter school takes on big challenge Some of the families who've flocked to one of the last mostly black schools in Denver returned to Challenges, Choices and Images charter school Monday night for a town hall meeting that felt at times like a Sunday church service. |
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Teachers a priority As recommended by the St. Vrain Valley School District's public policy task force, 75 percent of the proposed $14.5 million mill-levy override would go toward increasing teachers' pay and reinstating the positions cut in March. ...The school board also plans to designate $1 million of the mill-levy override funds for the charter schools. |