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CSAP shows thousands of Colorado students are being left behind
The new lingo for Colorado students and schools, courtesy of the state Department of Education, is CUKUMU. That translates to three categories of students: those who are catching up, those who are keeping up and those who are moving up. It might seem the epitome of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, but it represents a new way of…
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Public online schools surge in popularity
This month, 16-year-old Jessica Littlefield of Colorado Springs will start getting up early again to join hundreds of area students headed to Coronado High School. But her younger sister, Katelyn, will get to sleep a bit later and won’t have to worry about dressed up for class. Instead, she’ll head to the dining room, fire…
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New D-11 superintendent is the man with a plan — lots of them
Figure out the goal, map out how to meet it, monitor progress, report results and be accountable for what happened. Those are the basics for a lesson plan, a school plan, a business plan or a strategic plan. Call it what you like, but if you work for Colorado Springs School District 11 Superintendent Nicholas…
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School time already? It is at one Springs school
Throughout El Paso County, most school-age children are outside riding bikes, hanging out at the pool, going to camp and otherwise immersing themselves in the joys of summer vacation. But for 174 elementary schoolkids in Harrison School District 2, Monday was back-to-school day. They’re students at Chamberlin Academy, the only year-round public school in the…
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Local engineer helped build Apollo booster rocket
With a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering, Dave Schmidt landed a job with the space and missile division of McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. in southern California. It was 1965, the space race was under way, and Schmidt found himself on a team of engineers with a daunting task: build a booster rocket that…
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New D-49 superintendent isn’t afraid of a challenge
He’s the son of a preacher man and a country boy at heart, and now he will be leading troubled Falcon School District 49.Bradley J. Schoeppey, 49, an area superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, is expected to start his job in about two weeks. Under state open meeting laws, the school board must wait 14…
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Food provider to the needy closing, but only until August
A west-side food pantry started by former homeless people and known for its unconventional approach has closed temporarily and is expected to reopen next month.Living Faith Food Pantry, a ministry of Living Faith Church of the Nazarene, 2120 King St., shut its doors June 24 but plans to resume weekly public distribution of nonperishable goods,…
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New program to help kids of deployed military needs volunteers
The Kunkel kids won’t get to play ball or swim with their dad, Henry, until next summer. The Fort Carson medic left for Afghanistan a month ago. But Tyler, 13, and Nathanael, 9, are hoping to do those activities and more with someone they’ve not yet met. The Pikes Peak branch of Big Brothers Big…
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School districts’ budgets set — but definitely not in stone
By law, Colorado school districts must adopt a budget by June 30 each year. The 17 school districts in the Pikes Peak region met that requirement, but district officials warn that the spending plans for the year that began July 1 are far from final. They always have to make some adjustments because of fluctuations…
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Pain kept teen from high school but not high goals
Liz Harrison missed so much school that she eventually dropped out and got her GED instead of trying to catch up. That would satisfy a lot of people, but not Harrison. She took Pikes Peak Community College classes, became a certified nursing assistant and got a job at an assisted care facility. She enjoyed the…