Tag: d-11
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D-11 teachers rally outside board meeting to voice concerns over future of collective bargaining agreement
A sea of red-shirt clad union members flooded in and out of Colorado Springs School District 11’s administration building for its regular Board of Education meeting Wednesday night. About 300 members of the Colorado Springs Education Association, accompanied by parents, fellow union representatives and community members, attended the meeting to express concerns over the future…
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Colorado Springs student starts petition to reinstate traditional snow days
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An unseasonal onslaught of winter weather and district policy has Academy School District 20 already short on snow days for this school year. With the winter snow yet to arrive in full force, one of its students is hoping to change that. Emily Beckman, a…
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Colorado Springs student starts petition to reinstate traditional snow days
An unseasonal onslaught of winter weather and district policy has Academy School District 20 already short on snow days for this school year. With the winter snow yet to arrive in full force, one of its students is hoping to change that. Emily Beckman, a sixth grader at Discovery Canyon Campus, recently started an online…
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Colorado Springs student starts petition to reinstate traditional snow days
An unseasonal onslaught of winter weather and district policy has Academy School District 20 already short on snow days for this school year. With the winter snow yet to arrive in full force, one of its students is hoping to change that. Emily Beckman, a sixth grader at Discovery Canyon Campus, recently started an online…
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Designs for potential Palmer High School renovations presented at town hall
Students, alumni and various community members were presented a series of conceptual designs Monday evening in the Palmer High School auditorium during an update on the planning for the school’s renovations. The drafts are the first to be presented to the public and reflect the feedback that designers had gathered to date since work began…
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Colorado Springs-area school board leaders campaign against local marijuana measures
Elected officials from across the Colorado Springs region are lending their voices to a campaign opposing recreational marijuana sales in the city. On Sunday, an unknown number of El Paso County voters received a mass text message from Colorado Springs School District 11 Board President Parth Melpakam calling for their vote on a pair of…
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FOUND: Missing at-risk juvenile last seen near elementary school
UPDATE: Colorado Springs School District 11 reported at 7:30 p.m. on Monday that Trevor Frachner has been located and is currently being reunited with his family. The Colorado Springs Police Department is asking for help from the community in locating a missing at-risk juvenile, 11-year-old Trevor Frachner. Frachner was last seen around 12:35 p.m. near Grant Elementary…
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D-11 to vote on downtown Colorado Springs revitalization projects
The School District 11 Board of Education is mulling an agreement with the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority to help finance two separate development projects within the district. One would create workforce housing in the Lowell neighborhood east of Nevada Avenue and south of East Fountain Boulevard, while the other would look to help finance…
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Colorado Springs adding 10 new school safety zones for middle schools, high schools
With classes back in session across Colorado Springs, parents may notice something different at local school this year when dropping off the kids. During a press briefing last month, Mayor Yemi Mobolade announced that five new school zones have already been implemented at middle schools and high schools throughout Colorado Springs this year with five…
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D-11 finalizes policy prohibiting cellphone use ahead of school year
When class resumes across Colorado Springs School District 11 Monday, it will mark the beginning of a major shift in the presence of cellphones in its schools. Starting in the 2024-25 school year, they will become the first school district in El Paso County to prohibit the use of all students’ personal technology devices during…