Tag: restorative justice
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How do local schools ‘turn around’ after years of poor performance?
To ensure success for every student in Colorado schools, the state’s accountability system gives underperforming schools the chance to address their shortcomings before intervention. How exactly a school achieves this transformation can depend on a myriad of conditions. In Harrison D-2, El Paso County’s most racially and economically diverse school district, the road to school…
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Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
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Colorado Springs nonprofit kicks off inaugural summer enrichment program
A Colorado Springs-based nonprofit recently expanded one of its signature programs to include two jam-packed summer enrichment sessions. Educating Children of Color, an organization dedicated to elevating underserved kids through education, just completed the initial session of its first Summer Leadership Academy, an initiative that combines interactive learning with a series of classroom sessions on…