Author: Eric Young eric.young@gazette.com
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Online schools safe, homeschool programs uncertain following ERBOCES dissolution
Some alternatives to brick-and-mortar public schools will continue operating for the 2026-27 school year, while the future of others remains up in the air. Following the dissolution of the Education reEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Educational Services (ERBOCES) last week and new state requirements, funding for homeschool programs has yet to be secured. ERBOCES, which was…
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District 49 dissolves longtime provider of special services
A longtime education service provider that has been subject to recent public and government scrutiny is shutting down. School District 49’s Board of Education approved the dissolution of the Education ReEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Education Services (ERBOCES) during a special meeting Monday night. The meeting was called at D-49 Superintendent Peter Hilts’ recommendation during the…
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Colorado schools continue math improvements, while reading and writing progress stalls
Colorado continues to see solid improvements with its standardized math testing, but the same can’t be said for reading and writing. The Colorado Department of Education on Wednesday released student growth results and achievement data from the spring Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), PSAT and SAT assessments. Colorado’s overall percentage of students meeting or…
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Programming, partnerships and outreach expand to fill gaps in health care workforce
What’s the first thing a primary care doctor addresses when they meet with a 28-year-old female patient with trouble staying asleep, fatigue, a lack of appetite, headaches and skin flare-ups like acne and eczema? CU Boulder employee and University of Colorado Colorado Springs graduate student Mary Gately posed that question to a group of high…
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Catching up with Woodland Park Superintendent Ginger Slocum
Following one year as Woodland Park District RE-2’s superintendent on an interim basis, Ginger Slocum is ready to start her tenure as its permanent leader. The Courier caught up with Slocum to discuss what brought her to this role and her vision for the district in the months and years ahead. Slocum’s emailed responses have…
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Colorado Springs D-11 donates classrooms to Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind is getting a bit more room to work with. In a swift and unique arrangement, Colorado Springs District 11 has donated two of its modular units to CSDB for its school for the blind. The 20-year-old units will be refurbished and renovated to meet today’s code…
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Colorado Springs high schoolers harness AI to simplify recycling
Aryan Tuteja has long advocated for environmental awareness throughout his years at Discovery Canyon Campus High School. Last year, this advocacy became action. Tuteja, 18, and a group of students designed and presented a new sorting system for recycling everyday waste at their school during the 2025-26 school year. Utilizing artificial intelligence, their invention named…
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Discovery Canyon students harness AI to simplify recycling
Aryan Tuteja has long advocated for environmental awareness throughout his years at Discovery Canyon Campus High School. Last year, this advocacy became action. Tuteja, 18, and a group of students designed and presented a new sorting system for recycling everyday waste at their school during the 2025-26 school year. Utilizing artificial intelligence, their invention named…
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By the students, for the students: Sierra High School represents Colorado in developing national AI framework
To many, the recent, rapid development of generative artificial intelligence and its lack of frameworks and oversight may evoke comparisons to the unrestrained Wild West in the 1800s or the economic potential of the dot-com boom in the early 2000s. Recognizing AI’s role in the future, students from all 50 states convened over the summer…
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Academy D-20 board president to resign
Amy Shandy, the president of Academy District 20’s Board of Education, announced Thursday that she will step down because she and her husband Ty will move out of state for a job he recently accepted. Fighting back tears, she called serving on the board “an honor.” The board’s Sept. 3 meeting will be her last.…