Tag: colorado springs school district 11
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EDITORIAL: D-11 teachers union plays hooky
On Wednesday — just two days before ballots are mailed to voters for the District 11 school board election — the Colorado Springs Education Association plans a walkout at district schools. The union’s strike is not about wages, benefits or working conditions — its usual beefs. This time, it’s about power and control. It’s a…
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D-11 approves improvement plan for 7 schools
The Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education unanimously approved improvement plans for seven schools and the district ahead of the Oct. 15 deadline during their meeting on Wednesday. In the 2023-24 school year, the district had improved from nine schools on turnaround and priority improvement status to three, according to board documents. Those…
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Pikes Peak region schools: Start dates for the 2025-26 school year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save School District 49, based in Falcon and the east side of Colorado Springs, was the first district in the Pikes Peak region to begin the classes for the 2025-26 school year. Kindergarten along with sixth- and ninth-grade students started classes Friday with the rest of…
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New course in Colorado Springs D-11 focuses on ethics in journalism paired with hands-on media training
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With longstanding principles of objectivity, truth and fairness in news reporting up for debate in recent years, a homegrown Career and Technical Education course launching in Colorado Springs School District 11 for the fall semester will explore such topics under an overarching theme of “ethics…
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Colorado justices agree school district co-ops cannot locate facilities outside borders without consent
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that cooperative associations of school boards lack the power to open facilities outside their boundaries in school districts that do not consent to the placement. Under Colorado law, boards of cooperative services, or BOCES, allow for school districts to band together and contract for additional services among their…
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Number of homeless public school students on the rise in Colorado and El Paso County
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In just the first half of this week, nine new students who were identified as homeless entered the work world of Bridget Donovan, the McKinney-Vento Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program specialist for Colorado Springs School District 11. “That seems to be a trend;…
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Colorado Springs D-11 parents, students protest switch to remote learning at some schools, as COVID cases climb
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Fifteen-year-old Aimee Wright was sitting in her last class on Thursday when she heard Coronado High School was switching back from in-person learning to remote instruction on Friday. “We were just about to put on a play and did the opening and closing night yesterday,…