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Senate Bill 21-182 seeks to minimize student run-ins with police, boost district reporting of discipline practices and create positive, alternative ways to address student behavior.

The 250 students enrolled in the program at the district’s Innovation Center gain conceptual and practical knowledge for the cockpit or in mastering drone technology.

The SVVSD school board on Wednesday approved an amendment to the district’s lease purchase agreement with Apple for more than $14 million to purchase 26,500 iPads with rugged keyboard cases, and provide support services and teacher professional development.

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“The state demographer identified Colorado is still a growth state,” SVVSD Planning Director Scott Toillion said. “Over the next 10 years, the growth in the Front Range is going to be about 640,000 to 700,000 … a great deal of this growth is going to be right here ... where St. Vrain is located.”

The Boulder County Elections Division won a U.S Election Assistance Commission Clearinghouse Award in the outstanding innovations in elections category for its 2020 high school voter registration program. 

A majority of eligible SVVSD staff were able to make appointments within two weeks of eligibility window opening.

A parent survey by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University found that since COVID hit, a quarter of 4-year-olds have shown behavior problems such as temper tantrums and disobedience and one-fifth struggled to get along with peers or make friends. During typical times, only about 10% of children have such issues, according to the group’s report.

House Bill 21-1161 would cancel some Colorado Measures of Academic Success, or CMAS, testing for the 2020-2021 school year.

Graduates able to invite four members from their household.