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SROs this week began delivering meals to locations around town to make sure students who can’t get to one of the district’s 17 distribution sites can still receive the sack breakfasts and lunches. 

During Wednesday’s school board meeting, Superintendent Don Haddad outlined a series of upcoming meetings in which he plans to gather information and data to help decide if it will be safe for students to return to schools in January.  He said he hopes to be able to send information about the district’s reopening plans to parents around Dec. 21, and to teachers and staff in January.

Outgoing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had indicated the U.S. Department of Education was unlikely to grant testing waivers this school year. Whether to stick with that policy or give states more flexibility will be one of the first questions confronting incoming President Joe Biden and his education secretary.

A Chalkbeat analysis of the 30 largest districts in the state shows 22 are now fully remote. Of the remaining eight that still provide some in-person instruction, only three offer it to students of all grade levels.

Trent Hoshiko is producing tonight’s Silver Creek Leadership Academy Capstone Project Virtual Expo.

Longmont High students ranked among top 10% in national program that teaches high school students the inner workings of the business world through a series of six courses that include hands-on projects.

The guidance, released Nov. 25, comes after district superintendents advocated for increased flexibility on who to send home when students or staff members test positive.

“The loss is less than expected. But there is still a situation where we see kids not doing as well in mathematics, for sure,” said Chris Minnich, the head of NWEA, a nonprofit testing organization that released an analysis of new data Tuesday. “My headline is: better than expected, but it’s still a challenge for the country.”

To harness the power of apprenticeships, the state labor department has partnered with the U.S. Department of Labor, state and local agencies and workforce organizations to create more than 200 registered apprenticeship programs across the state and engage over 6,000 apprentices, according to the website. One such local partner is St. Vrain Valley School District.

A weekday update of cases reported on the district's online dashboard, which now includes quarantine numbers by school.