Author: Debbie Kelly
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DPS enrollment dips, mirroring statewide drop in students
Enrollment in Denver Public Schools — Colorado’s largest school district — slightly dipped this school year, mirroring a statewide downward trend that began just after the pandemic upended people’s lives. DPS lost just over a thousand students, a change of 1.15% from the last school year, according to data from the Colorado Department of Education. Colorado…
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With abortion battle shifting to states, hard work lies ahead, both sides of debate say
Angry outcries on one side – and joyous celebrations on the other – erupted with Friday’s anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the decades-old law guaranteeing women’s ability to get an abortion. The ruling on a 2018 Mississippi state law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation effectively overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision…
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Petitioners turn in signatures seeking recall election for three Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 school board members
A group dissatisfied with the school board of Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1 turned in enough signatures March 11 to force a recall election for three of the board’s five members. “We had to focus on a grassroots effort,” said organizer Patty Waddle, a former district employee. “It took a community working together for a…
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Part 3: Education
Poverty, along with difficult home lives and personal circumstances, the absence of electronic devices outside of school and a lack of emphasis on the importance of education can count as strikes against many southeast students. But that doesn’t preclude success.
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Medical marijuana industry struggles amid competition, regulation
A system that mimics daylight illuminates Lono Ho’ala’s grow room at the Eagle’s Nest Wellness Center in Cascade, where cannabis plants as tall as corn stalks are pampered in a temperature-controlled and specially ventilated environment that’s laced with carbon dioxide to accelerate growth.Ho’ala is patient, waiting until leaves start to turn yellow to harvest the…
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UCCS professor wins top award
Two decades ago, Thomas Pyszczynski’s ideas about how people use their cultural beliefs and values to shield themselves from anxiety about death – and how that plays out in international conflict – were viewed as kooky at worst, interesting at best.9/11 changed all that. In the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World…