Author: Sue Mcmillin
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D-11, D-20 work to fill high school principal jobs
A search for two high school principals in Colorado Springs School District 11 was launched this week — just as Academy School District 20 was wrapping up a similar search. End-of-the-school-year retirements were accepted by the D-11 board on Wednesday for Coronado High School Principal Susan Humphrey and Mitchell High School Principal Larry Cutter. The…
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Attendance, enrollment policies streamlined in District 11
Streamlined policies on attendance areas and choice enrollment and transfers in Colorado Springs School District 11 were unanimously approved Wednesday, but not without some board sniping on a long-lingering issue. Board member Bob Null said he thought the revised policies were great but wanted to ensure that the administration would begin collecting information on why…
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The Notebook gets a new format for easier reader access
We’ve made a slight change to The Notebook. It’s no longer in blog format because so many schools and other educational sites block access to blogs. We wanted our education news and notes to be accessible to all, so items will be posted there as they are to the rest of Pikes Peak Education. The…
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West student wins national volunteerism award
Nearly three years ago, Kara Zehner started helping at a therapeutic riding program. A few months later, she got involved with a program that raises money to train dogs to detect land mines. Never did she imagine that those two things would lead to an unexpectedly exciting trip to the principal’s office at West Middle…
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Students face off in regional Mathcounts competition
As his daughter hunched over a table and raced to solve math problems more quickly than her opponent, Ming Song knew it would be easy to make a mistake with a tricky question. But Angela Song, 12, did her father proud – and followed in her sister Shulie’s footsteps — when she took first place…
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Fingers fly at regional Braille Challenge
The eight high school students in the media center were setting up their areas for an intense academic competition when a girl from Denver raised her head and said: “So who else is in here?” The students knew from rustling sounds and voices that they weren’t alone. But in a Braille speed and accuracy contest,…
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D-11 summer school, jobs on chopping block
About $7 million in proposed cuts in Colorado Springs School District 11 that were laid on the table this week by district administrators would eliminate summer learning programs and cut 47 jobs. The instructional services budget, which includes money for programs for special needs and gifted students, would take a 32 percent budget cut —…
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Grant will help study how to restore Defense land
Some of the most pristine land in the U.S. is off-limits because it abuts some of the most hazardous lands: former military bases and test sites.Take, for example, the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge in southern Indiana. It’s home to more than 100 species of songbirds and unique oak forests and grasslands — and about…
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Howbert, Jackson elementaries celebrate expansion
From the outside, you wouldn’t know that Howbert and Jackson elementary schools have changed. The bricks match, the trim’s the same color. But staff and students have spent the past few weeks spreading out into additions that provided needed classrooms and a few extra amenities. “It makes our space so much more functional,” Howbert principal…
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Profs win science grant to look at former military sites
A husband and wife team of professors from Colorado Springs have been awarded a $244,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the ecological restoration of lands formerly used by the military, Colorado College announced today. Marion Hourdequin, an assistant professor of philosophy at CC, and David Havlick, an assistant professor of geography and…