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Schools in the News Archive
Beginning May 23, 2008...
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Granby - Nancy Karas takes reins of East Grand schools About 1,350 students are enrolled in the district's six schools: Indian Peaks Charter, Fraser Elementary, Granby Elementary, Grand Lake Elementary, East Grand Middle School and Middle Park High. |
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Mixed Review for Music in Charter Schools Are charter schools embracing or excluding the arts? The first investigation of the status of music education in charter schools suggests the answer is neither. |
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Wildfire forces 150 evacuations Shelters were set up at Guffey Charter School and Cresson Elementary School, and livestock were taken to the Teller County Fairgrounds. |
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Online Learning Grows, but Research Finds Mixed Results A new report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University says eighteen states have full-time virtual schools. There are no buildings. All classes are online. |
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Charter school CCI rushes change Just days before Denver's school board decides the fate of a troubled charter school, officials from Challenges, Choices & Images school are furiously making changes. |
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Does size matter for school districts? In recent years there's been a lot of talk about school size. Many reformers think smaller schools help student achievement and reduce dropout rates. Some charter schools are based on that belief, and some advocates (with minimal success) have been pushing for small high schools. |
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Grand Valley parents administer public education at home Colorado Virtual Academy, nicknamed COVA, offers a public education from Adams 12 School District to students across the state through an online curriculum. The program will go from kindergarten through 12th grade beginning this school year. |
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National Education Panel Issues Framework for Academic Quality The National Consensus Panel on Charter School Academic Quality today released its inaugural report recommending four essential indicators of academic quality in public charter schools - student achievement level, student progress over time, post-secondary readiness and success, and student engagement. |
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Boulderite Polis has Vail ties; wants to represent resort valley in Congress Polis wants to reform No Child Left Behind, increase transparency in public education curriculum and results, thereby reducing reliance on standardized testing, and use federal funds to encourage innovation in school districts and charter schools. He's added he's a huge fan of dual-language immersion programs. |
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Students survive tornado on front porch Windsor Charter Academy seventh-grader Brandon Lind was riding his bike across Colorado Highway 257 with his friend Kevin Fordred after school on May 22 when the hail began. |
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SVVSD assessment guru moving on During her 34-year career with the St. Vrain Valley School District, Stephens-Carter served as a teacher at Frederick Middle/Senior High School and Northeast Junior High (now Heritage Middle School); the district's math coordinator; its assessment coordinator; and, for the past four years, the executive director of assessment and curriculum, as well as the charter school liaison. |
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Getting to know--Jay Cerny Jay Cerny began his route to becoming principal of the Eagle County Charter Academy fairly typically as a teacher. But his route to becoming a teacher was anything but ordinary. |
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DPS fields new ideas Two Denver moms tired of driving their young children to Aurora are proposing the city's first public Chinese and Spanish language immersion school. |
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SPEAKOUT: Drug-testing folly Government officials from Washington, D.C., gathered for a press conference last week in a small, crowded classroom at the ACE Community Challenge Charter School in Denver. In front of a carefully coordinated backdrop of books and computers, they announced that Denver School District 1 would be the first in Colorado to institute a random student drug-testing program. |
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School awaits its fate Now, many wonder whether CCI will make it. Denver's school board will decide by June 30 whether to reapprove the charter contract or it may vote to close the school of 600 students or demand radical changes. |
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A second chance for high school graduates Amancio, 18, came to Gypsum from Durango, Mexico, 8 months ago and began going to the New America School, a public charter high school where recent immigrants can learn English. |
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Online school helps cancer patient reach graduation dream "I'm finally graduating. It's been such a long road," said Connors, a member of the class of 2008 with the Hope Online Charter School. Connors suffers from a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis, type 1. |
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Re-2 school board to assess facilities The 18-member facilities committee of the Park County Re-2 School District has been organized with the idea of assessing the needs and planning for improved facilities for the five schools within the Re-2 School District. That includes an elementary school, middle school and high school in Fairplay and one charter schools each in Lake George and Guffey. |
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Learning how to escape poverty Some public schools have defied the odds, lifting up those at-risk kids. They need to not only be celebrated but duplicated. And successful charter schools need to be welcomed into districts and not viewed as threats. |
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School to perform random drug tests on students Principal Eloy Chavez knows when kids come to his school, it's already been a long road. He calls the ACE Community Challenge Charter School a last stop for teens trying to get out of drugs or gangs. |
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A year of change for Eagle County schools The board also decided to use bond money to fund a common building at the Eagle County Charter Academy, another topic at the center of a heated community debate. Charter Academy leaders have long said the school needs a new common building with a gym to safely hold school assemblies and to have P.E. on snowy days. |
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5 questions for Eloy Chavez, ACE Community Challenge Charter Principal Behind a door painted purple at his school on Santa Fe Drive in central Denver, Eloy Chavez works to keep kids off of drugs and out of gangs long enough to focus on learning. Today, Chavez will accept a $150,000 federal grant to perform random drug tests this fall on some of the nearly 200 students at his ACE Community Challenge Charter School. |
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School Devoted to Traditional Teaching, Values The founding parents of the Classical Academy, a K-12 public charter school in Colorado Springs, wanted to create a close-knit program focused on strong values as well as high academic standards. |
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Gypsum's New America School to graduate 12 Hugs, 'I love yous,' and calling the principal 'mom' is typical at the New America School in Gypsum. |
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Children's Chorale premieres environmental musical as part of NPAC "It's got a huge range," says Beaven, a 12-year-old who attends Boulder's Horizons K-8 Charter School. "It's from hip-hop to softer music." |
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Beating the Odds "This gal is smart," said Debbie Lofton, a teacher at Vista Charter High, where Cole graduated with a class of 32. "She's excellent in school. She doesn't have a car so she would walk even in the snow. When it was nicer, she'd ride her bike. She'd come to school first thing in the morning and work at the Red Barn after. Most kids who live in an apartment and work everyday would not be responsible enough to get up and get to school on time." |
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Third Grade Reading Results Steady and High Boulder's Horizons K-8 Alternative Charter School was the only Boulder Valley school with a 100 percent passing rate, up from 86 percent the year before. |
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About the New America School There are four New America Schools in Colorado, located in Aurora, Northglenn, Lakewood and the Eagle Valley. The schools are a system of public charter high schools first opened in 2004, dedicated to giving recent immigrants a good education, teaching them English, and enrolling students not currently in school. |
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2008 Recipients of Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence PR-Inside.com Wien, Austria, June 5, 2008 |
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Auer steps down as principal Firestone Mayor Chad Auer is leaving his post as principal of Carbon Valley Academy in Frederick, he said Wednesday. |
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Parents bemoan loss of AP physics Several Denver-area schools are using or looking at gender splitting. A new Aurora charter school opening in the fall, Axl Academy, will split the sexes. A charter school in Colorado Springs has been separating genders for years. |
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Debs defy stereotypes Brains, beauty and a fierce determination to make their mark in the world: The 13 high school seniors who were debutantes at the 44th annual ball put on by Beta Rho Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority each exhibited those qualities, and more. Aerial Virginia Harper-Martin, daughter of Ronald Harper and Arbara Martin, graduated from Challenges, Choices, and Images Charter School, where she received awards for her creative writing. |
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Genders split up at more schools In Colorado, a new Aurora charter school opening in the fall is splitting up the sexes. Arapahoe High School in Littleton has offered single-sex classes in several subjects since 2003, and a charter school in Colorado Springs has been separating genders for years. |
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On a musical mission in Eagle County Now Sera Schools visits four schools through the valley - Vail Mountain School, Eagle County Charter Academy, Eagle Valley Elementary and Brush Creek Elementary - and has seen the number of students grow from 30 to 75. |
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You want "change"? Start here Obama might have done better visiting the Denver School of Science and Technology, a relatively new independent charter school. |
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DSST recognizes exceptional teacher The Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) announced today that Mark Heffron, a math teacher who joined DSST in 2005, will receive the first Sie Faculty Excellence Award. |
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Obama Wonks It Up in Education Speech Obama backed into his answer, praising charter schools and suggesting the federal government encourage innovation both by the president's "bully pulpit" and by advertising "best practices" for schools to observe and emulate. |
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Chartering a course in science And so she did, at West Denver Preparatory, where she and a team of educators half her age opened for business in 2006. Don't let the name fool you. The charter school in an old nursing home on South Federal Boulevard caters to middle- schoolers who in many cases couldn't read textbooks when they started sixth grade. |
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Effort to cleave BVSD begins About 70 people want to divide the Boulder Valley School District into two - and they hope at least 27,000 voters feel the same way. |
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If Kids Were in Charge (Opinion Editorial) If Stetson Mathias of Aurora Academy were mayor, he would give a speech to students about the importance of city government in keeping children safe. He would ask, "How many of you like it when your car hits a big pot hole and your juice goes flying. Not anyone?" |
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Discipline at West Denver Prep The charter school on South Federal Boulevard uses a system of carrots and sticks - or paychecks and demerits - to manage student behavior. Similar systems are used by college prep charters in low-income communities across the country, including in Denver at KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy. Here's how it works at West Denver Prep... |
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JeffCo Schools consider asking voters for more money Benigno says the district should take a hard look at the way teachers are paid and restructure the system so it is more efficient. She says JeffCo should concentrate on offering students more school choice and be a stronger advocate for charter schools instead of just asking for more money from a population that is aging and contains fewer school-aged kids. |
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House Speaker endorses Hagan Romanoff said he has also visited Montrose's Passage Charter School, which Hagan helped established in 1998. |
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Reading, writing and discipline Luis attends West Denver Prep, a charter school, where discipline plays a big part in the curriculum. |
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Teen is first to win Urban League award For the first time, that person is a teenager. Tanner Ryan, a 16-year-old about to start his junior year at Jefferson Academy Charter School in Westminster, accepted the award at the 62nd Whitney M. Young Jr. Awards Dinner held earlier this month at the Sheraton Denver Hotel. |
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Windsor school officials assessing the damage And it took about 20 minutes for Windsor Charter Academy students to file out of school Thursday, excited to get their summer vacation started. But that 20 minutes also could have meant much more tragedy. "If that tornado would have come through just 20 minutes earlier, I don't know how bad things would have been," said Chris Ruff, president of the Windsor Charter Academy board of directors. |
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New law opens up home-school market The Cesar Chavez School Network offers a similar program through its GOAL Academy. |
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Vail Valley teacher to explore Japanese Buddhism Tara Goike, a teacher at Stone Creek Charter School and a yoga instructor, hopes to bring a part of that ancient Eastern philosophy and tradition into her classes. |
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Re-2 school district struggles with budget Problems with the water and septic systems at the Lake George Charter School have prompted the school district to cons |