Schools

“I lived and breathed the work on this building for four years and I think everybody involved with this did a fantastic job,” Laura Hess, executive director of special education for the St. Vrain Valley School District, said. “It’s amazing.”

Y locations across the region are offering remote learning and child care programs for kindergarten through fifth grade students in St. Vrain Valley, Boulder Valley, Weld RE-5J and Thompson school districts. 

Money from the Colorado COVID Relief Fund grant will be used to continue and expand the program to provide meals for adults and youth, take-home groceries, and to add additional distribution sites, according to a news release.

While “innovation” in the Innovation Center’s name conjures up images of robotics and aeronautics and other high-tech fields, it doesn’t exclude conservation. “Although it’s not a biology center or an ecology center, they’re innovating how to raise these fish,” Boulder County Parks and Open Space wildlife biologist Mac Kobza said.

Two Title I schools place in the top three for the first time in the MyOn Summer Reading Challenge.

"It may feel like a stark choice between mental or physical health. But as a family therapist and professor of educational psychology who studies resilience in families under stress, I can assure you there’s no single schooling option that guarantees a happy, healthy kid or dooms a child to despair."

"While children attend K-12 public schools for an average of 1,195 hours per year, a full-time working parent averages twice as much time, about 2,450 hours per year, working and commuting."

The cybersecurity P-TECH program will allow students to earn an associate degree alongside their high school diploma — at no cost to students.

SVVSD hopes to get teacher and staff COVID-19 test results returned within two to three days.

Colorado’s experience of school reopening has been a microcosm of the nation’s, marked by uncertainty and disparities. Students are facing wildly different educational experiences based on where they live.