Tag: education
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PERSPECTIVE: Higher ed’s orthodoxy
The Writing Center at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU-Denver) no longer teaches proper English to its students. The Center’s webpages — removed from public view shortly after being publicized by the Complete Colorado news service — claim that Standard American English “privileges white communities and maintains social and racial hierarchies” and “privileges white populations…
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El Paso County to reinstate frozen child care assistance program
El Paso County is planning to reinstate a partial waitlist system for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, a program that subsidizes child care costs for low-income families. The program ran out of sustainable funding in 2024, prompting a freeze on admitting children from new applications in November of that year. Since then, only children…
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Lewis-Palmer D-38 students scheduled to return to class after potential threat
Classes are expected to resume in Lewis-Palmer District 38 on Wednesday, a day after all district schools were closed because of a potential threat. District 38 said on its website Tuesday that there was “no credible threat or elevated risk” moving ahead, and that it was safe for the schools to reopen. Officials said to…
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Charles Johnson retains District 11 school board seat after election recount
The order of finish for the last of three open seats on the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education remained the same after a recount, according to figures released Thursday from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office. An automatic recount was triggered in November after the vote totals for several candidates…
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GUEST COLUMN: Colorado’s U.S. senators let down all of America’s kids
When the U.S. Senate voted to close the dangerous “hemp-derived THC” loophole last week, a rare bipartisan supermajority came together to put kids first. The vote sent a clear message that the unregulated intoxicating hemp products, which have flooded the market, don’t belong in gas stations, vape shops, or online stores without any age restrictions…
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In her 58th year of teaching, Pueblo South educator ‘in no rush’ to retire
Kathrine Thomson, a history teacher at Pueblo South High School, might have quit after her first year of teaching if she hadn’t been so stubborn. Fresh out of college, only three or four years older than some of her students, Thomson felt overwhelmed throughout that first year, she said. “Frankly, after that first year, I…
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WP board switch reflects statewide trend
Unlike recent school board elections in Colorado, the 2025 coordinated elections sent a clear message in favor of progressive-minded candidates. Following the initial results, the Colorado Education Association (CEA), the statewide teachers’ union, announced in a news release that over 80% of its endorsed candidates were ahead in their races across Colorado. In Teller County,…
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Head Start program for children loses federal funding in shutdown
A long-running program that serves more than 800 children in El Paso County has been operating on emergency reserves for the past week while the federal government shutdown prevents funding. Community Partnership for Child Development is one of four Head Start programs in Colorado with an annual federal funding renewal date that falls on Nov.…
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D-38, other school districts come together to advance career education
Years of discussions and planning across El Paso County’s industries and school districts culminated in mid-November during a ceremony to bolster the local workforce. Announced last year by the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce & EDC and the education nonprofit Peak Education, Innovate Pikes Peak is a collaboration designed to close skills gaps in the…
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5 takeaways from CU Boulder engineers’ study to help tech developers create AI tools people actually want to use
A study published in the journal AI and Ethics from University of Colorado Boulder professor Amir Behzadan in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and his Ph.D. student Armita Dabiri, studied how artificial intelligence (AI) technology can earn public confidence. The two created a framework for developing AI tools that people actually want…