Schools

Starting slow with a reduced number of children, the school hopes to reach 50 students in the fall.

Meeting with Boulder County Public Health experts aimed at making needed updates to tentative plan announced last month.

“I want to make this point very clear, that masks will be worn by students all through pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, “ St. Vrain Valley School District Superintendent Don Haddad said during a video session with the board on Wednesday. 

Despite the 2020 competitive season being canceled, the association stressed this is not the end of music programs for the coming school year: “(The decision) certainly is not a death knell for instrumental music. This will provide an opportunity for all of us to seek new ideas, activities, instructional processes that will enhance the growth of instrumental music education.”

The ceremonies, with some exceptions, will be at 9 a.m. July 25 at individual school fields or stadiums. Graduates will each be limited to two guests who live in their households.

The program is estimating around 11,000 students, 5,900 of whom attend SVVSD schools, are in need of supplies for the 2020-21 school year.

As many as 3,000 volumes are available at the Innovation Lab and all are free to students in the St. Vrain Valley School District.

As of now, students in grades preschool through fifth, sixth and ninth grades will return to full time, in-person instruction. Seventh- and eighth-grade students and 10th- through 12th-grade students will return to a combination of in-person and real-time online learning. A final plan for fall classes will not be decided until mid-July.

Superintendent Don Haddad unveiled the district’s preliminary plan for a return to classes during Wednesday’s school board meeting. He is meeting with Boulder County health officials to review the proposal, saying it could be altered if the spread of COVID-19 changes.

The state is facing $3.3 billion in budget cuts in response to coronavirus-related revenue declines, and current estimates are that school funding could be reduced by 5%, which in SVVSD will create an estimated $14 million deficit.