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PPCC enrollment skyrockets as budget takes big hits
Pikes Peak Community College officials are reeling from an avalanche of challenges that include soaring enrollment and the spectre of more budget cuts. Thousands of people who have lost jobs, coupled with those taking classes under the new GI Bill, have pushed fall enrollment on four campuses up 16 percent to 13,083 students — the…
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Staff, students plead for end to charter school turmoil
Breanna Maestas, Anna Alatorre and Jessica Fahmie shivered in the cold wind Wednesday outside a Colorado Springs restaurant and hoped the adults meeting behind closed doors inside would be able to rescue their future. The three are students of the online GOAL Academy, which was essentially shut down this week amid turmoil over who is…
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D-2 teachers going weightless to inspire students
Some teachers would do almost anything to help their students understand math and science. But defy gravity? Perform experiments while floating around like a balloon? Fox Meadow Middle School teachers Matt Allner and Emily Silvester are more than willing to give it a try. Allner, a space science instructor, and Silvester, who teaches physical education,…
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Local students weigh in on Obama speech
As David Campbell turned in a job application at a fast food restaurant Tuesday, he said he was a prime example of why kids should heed President Obama’s talk about staying in school. Campbell said he quit school when he was a 17-year-old junior because he wasn’t serious about learning and had fallen behind because…
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Schools cope with challenge of educating autistic students
It’s mid-morning, and Teresa Wright is relaxing on her living room couch, sighing that familiar sigh mothers everywhere emit after a hectic morning getting the kids off to school. But Wright has more on her mind than making sure the kids have their lunches and homework assignments. Three of her five sons — an 11-year-old…
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Area schools ponder how to handle Obama’s ‘stay in school’ speech
President Barack Obama wants to talk to the nation’s schoolchildren for about 15 minutes Tuesday to encourage them to work hard, set goals and take responsibility for their learning. But it appears that few public school students in the Pikes Peak region will hear the speech live. Decisions on how to handle the Obama “back to…
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School chef wins award for cutting-edge cuisine
Chef Allison Thompson walks from table to table, asking her patrons if they are happy with the day’s selection of roast beef au jus, four cheese penne, fresh roasted vegetables, beef barley soup, a spinach and greens salad and fruit bar. “I love this” responds Seamus Gebur, a first grader at the Colorado Springs School.…
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TCA elementary students reunited in new building
It was homecoming Thursday at The Classical Academy East Elementary. After 18 months as “vagabonds” using available classroom space in several other TCA and Academy School District 20 schools, the 800-plus students are back together under one roof. A brand new one at that. The $11.5 million facility on the Rampart Range Campus of Pikes…
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Scenes from Day 1 in some consolidated D-11 schools
Students came laden with backpacks and extra bags of school supplies, as they do on the first day of school every year. The annual rite included separating anxious kindergartners from their parents and giving sixth graders enough time to figure out how to open lockers and stuff bulging backpacks into the narrow space. And in…
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Space school will be tested this fall
Colorado Springs School District 11 will enter into a grand experiment this fall with a gambit to turn a troubled school into an science-aimed institution where students will reach for the stars. As leaders await the results, we explain how they’ve prepared to test their hypothesis: PROBLEM: Can a failed middle school in a low-income,…