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Under current law, school districts must allow parents and caregivers to possess and administer cannabis-based medicine on school grounds. School principals have discretion whether to allow school personnel to posses and administer medicine on school grounds. The new bill would remove that discretion.

Rather than administer the suite of standardized tests that students typically take, Colorado education officials will seek a waiver from federal testing requirements. If successful, there will be no science or social studies tests, and students would take either a math or a literacy test, but not both. The tests won’t be used to evaluate teacher performance or rate schools. 

Colorado schools are funded based on enrollment. The legislation approved by Polis ensures Colorado school districts will receive the money they originally expected for the 2020-21 school year despite about 30,000 fewer students showing up, a 3.3% decline in enrollment. 

“Since we can’t take a field trip, we thought we would bring a field trip to them,” third grade teacher Kelly Dodds said.

Snow packed roads and intermittent power outages cancel in-person learning at SVVSD.

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.”