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As retailers cut back cities confront 'ghostboxes'
(Aurora Sentinel-Daily Sun © 07/06/2009)
BISMARCK, N.D. | Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less than three years later, the home improvement retailer shuttered the underperforming store, leaving a big orange empty eyesore on the outskirts of town.The building, sitting derelict and ...

DREAM CITY 2020: 10 lessons we can learn from other cities
(Colorado Springs Gazette © 07/06/2009)
Reinventing a metropolitan area isn't a task that can be performed with insular thinking. As the organizers of Dream City: Vision 2020 plan for a massive community summit on July 18 at Coronado High School, they're looking for inspirational ideas to move the city forward. Here are 10 lessons other communities have learned that have potential implications for the Pikes Peak region. 1. Define th...

Guttau Public Relations Wins Awards
(Denver Your Hub © 07/06/2009)
Guttau Public Relations, a public relations firm specializing in restaurants, education, retail and nonprofit industries, announced today that it was honored by Colorado School Public Relations Association (COSPRA) with two awards for its client, Colorado Springs School District 11. COSPRA recognized District 11 for outstanding marketing materials as part of the 2009 Colorado School Public Relati...

Classes Aim To Preserve Urban Indians' Heritage
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 07/06/2009)
HEATHER CLARK, Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ― When Brittany Arviso was old enough to take part in a Navajo coming-of-age ceremony, her family grappled with the preparations. Not knowing where to find some of the items for the ceremony, they turned to her grandparents for help. Her father and grandfather went up into the mountains to ge...

Parks, trails important in urban areas
(Montrose Daily Press © 07/06/2009)
MONTROSE — Green space is critical for communities."Green space is just that — it's green," said Community Health Program Manager Karen Connor.Montrose has a total of 396 acres of park land in and around the city limits; 306 acres are owned and maintained by the city. Connor said parks and green space play several important roles for communities."The country is facing...

Remembering a community builder
(Denver Post © 07/05/2009)
Pete Mattivi wasn't a household name on the Front Range, but in Garfield County the name stood for public service. Mattivi, who died a week ago at 103 years old, amassed an astonishing record of civic activism, having been a county commissioner for two decades, mayor of his small town of New Castle for 22 years, and a school board member for a decade. His long list of accomplishments include...

The frenzy of new school creation
(Denver Post © 07/05/2009)
After years of hyperbole about the need for sweeping change in education, we are finally starting to see some action. The administration of Denver Public Schools recently considered 17 applications for the creation of new autonomous schools and has recommended eleven of those for School Board approval. Many of the proposals promise to bring innovative models to a district that struggles with low a...

Will: Can Whitman win over California?
(Denver Post © 07/05/2009)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots. In 1968, the Grimm brothers were selling vegetables at a roadside stand in Anaheim. They moved to Bakersfield and today Gri...

District revenue way behind rest of the state
(Greeley Tribune © 07/05/2009) (Registration Required)
This is in reply to Walter Bedinger's letter of June 23 to the editor. Bedinger is right on with his questions. They are timely, common and beg for answers. This is a commitment to answer these and all other inquiries concerning the underfunding of Greeley-Evans School District 6. We, the advocates for an override tax vote in November, plead for a chance to shed light on what has happened in avoi...

Criticize if you'd like, but don't label us
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/05/2009)
The mainstream media.I'm sure you've heard that phrase. It's particularly popular with conservative radio and TV personalities.There is something to it. The national media - TV networks, mega-newspapers, certain magazines, etc. - can be biased. For example, there certainly was a love fest between the national media and President Barack Obama during last year's presidential campaign.But there is a...

Moving generates different kind of stress
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/05/2009)
During the summer, many people find themselves moving from one home to another. If you are planning to move, or have made a move recently - whether it’s two miles or 2,000 miles; a forced move or a voluntary move - you know that moving is stressful. It actually ranks as one of the most stressful events of life, along with death and divorce.Earlier this year, my husband and I decided to move ...

Rules to learn by
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/05/2009)
Colorado students now will know what they are to expected to master by the time they graduate from high school in order to be prepared for college or to enter the work force.Officials from the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Department of Higher Education earlier this week adopted a lengthy description of postsecondary and work force readiness guidelines.The description is requir...

Tea party rallies supporters of lower taxes
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/05/2009)
Tax opposers celebrated America's birthday Saturday by rallying in the rain to voice their concern about President Barack Obama and federal spending.The "tea party," as it was called, was held on the steps of the Pueblo County Courthouse, the same place a similar rally was staged back in April as part of a nationwide protest. A similar gathering took place in Pueblo West on Saturday morn...

This week's meetings
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/05/2009)
MondayCity Council work session, 5:30 p.m., council chambers, City HallTuesday County Commissioners, 9 a.m., County CourthouseDistrict 70 school board, 6 p.m., Administrative Services CenterThursdayCounty Commissioners work session, 9 a.m., County Courthouse...

Departments of education officials meet to begin defining Colo. standards
(Aurora Sentinel-Daily Sun © 07/03/2009)
DENVER | The state departments of education and higher education met Tuesday to formally define standards for postsecondary and workforce readiness in education.The definition aims to prepare high school graduates for college, the workforce and the global economy by emphasizing knowledge and skills in critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, global and cultural awareness, civic responsibili...

Bold tax plan; really bad timing
(Colorado Springs Business Journal © 07/03/2009)
by Staff Writer Published: July 3,2009 Time posted: 12:00 am We were pleased that Vice Mayor Larry Small took the time to work up a spread sheet showing what a radically revised local tax system might look like. Few politicians are bold enough, or foolhardy enough, to attach their names to a proposal whose centerpiece is a nearly...

FRIDAY FOLDER: A roundup of regional school news
(Colorado Springs Gazette © 07/03/2009)
St. Mary's student wins forensics award Danielle Camous of St. Mary's High School has been named the 2009 National Forensic League National Student of the Year. The league has 92,000 active members and singles out one each year to recognize for best demonstrating the tenets of its code of honor: integrity, humility, respect, leadership and service. To be eligible for the award, the student must wi...

CNCC sees tuition increase by 9 percent
(Craig Daily Press © 07/03/2009)
The state legislature ap­­proved Colorado community colleges, including Colorado Northwestern Community Col­lege, to raise tuition by 9 percent in preparation for probable cuts in state funding, according to the Colorado Community College System. Amid state budget cuts for higher education, CNCC has to raise costs to cover growing enrollment. “We make a concerted effort to keep tuition raises ...

Activist watched Garfield develop
(Denver Post © 07/03/2009)
Pete Mattivi loved to tell stories about his life — and he had plenty. He died at 103 with a mind "sharp until the end," said his daughter, Pamela Bunn of New Castle. Mattivi died June 27 at an assisted-living center in Rifle. Mattivi had been active in almost everything that happened in New Castle, 12 miles west of Glenwood Springs. For years the town had only about 500 residents, ...

The devastating impact of teen pregnancy
(Denver Post © 07/03/2009)
I don't know if being a parent and raising a daughter qualifies me to speak out about teenage pregnancy, but I am passionate about speaking out because of the huge liability that teen pregnancy creates for the Pueblo community. I have been a personal witness to the devastating impact of teen pregnancy. In my job at Pueblo Community College, I see first-hand, day after day and year after year th...

Duncan challenges NEA: 'We' must change
(Education News Colorado © 07/03/2009)
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged the nation’s largest teachers union today to put the needs of children before the jobs of adults, calling for the NEA to embrace efforts such as tenure reform and the use of student test scores to judge teacher performance. “I came here today to challenge you to think differently about the role of unions in public education,” Duncan told hundreds of N...

District 49 hopes to have superintendent next week
(KOAA NBC 5 Pueblo © 07/03/2009)
Story By: Monica Gouty Source: KOAA Published Fri Jul 03, 2009, 06:32 AM MDT Updated Fri Jul 03, 2009, 06:32 AM MDT There are still 3 finalists for the Falcon District 49 superintendent position. School board members discussed the three men, Bentley Rayburn, Brad Schoeppey and Michael Poore at a meeting last night.  All 3 ...

LaPorte leaders push district for local library
(LaPorte North Forty News © 07/03/2009)
News Home Page About Us Advertising Info Community Page LaPorte leaders push district for local library By Cherry Sokoloski North Forty News An actual, bricks-and-mortar, honest-to-God library: that's what the LaPorte Area Planning and Advisory Committee wants for its community. Not just Internet access to materials, but walk-in-and-browse access. The Poudre River Public...

School funds in limbo
(Leadville Herald Democrat © 07/03/2009)
The Colorado state budget deficit has affected the Lake County School District budget for the 2009-2010 school year. As the school district budget was being developed, there was speculation that the state would cut funding to the schools statewide, because of a state financial crisis. Instead, school districts are required to set aside a portion of the state funding in a "fiscal emergency restr...

A stitch in time
(Lone Tree Voice © 07/03/2009)
Dr. James O’Hern turns 81 on July 24, and he said he will never sit around watching “Days of our Lives.”O’Hern is a senior volunteer for the Douglas County School District, teaching history of the county and its one-room school houses. According to O’Hern there were 42 of them before “we became a district.”O’Hern then needlepoints replica pictures onto window screens with yarn, frames them and don...

City schools' board sets search timeline
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/03/2009)
Pueblo City Schools District will begin advertising by July 13 for a new superinten- dant.The timetable was set during a discussion Thursday between the school board and Bob Cito, special projects consultant for the Colorado Association of School Boards, which is helping the board search for a new superinten- dant.John Covington left the district at the end of June to become superintendent of the ...

State agrees to audit of Cesar Chavez school network
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/03/2009)
The Pueblo City Schools board of education voted Thursday night to spend up to $80,000 for the Colorado Department of Education to conduct an independent audit of the Pueblo-based Cesar Chavez Network.The network oversees several schools, including Pueblo schools Cesar Chavez Academy and Dolores Huerta Preparatory High school. Pueblo City Schools holds the charter for those two schools.The audit w...

Stevenson making best of school district budget cuts
(Arvada Press © 07/02/2009)
No one seems very happy with the Jefferson County R-1 School District's 2009/2010 budget, which includes $11.8 million in cuts, and roughly 100 jobs eliminated. The $670 million operating budget was approved last month by the school board. Among the extensive staff cuts, the largest is the elimination of 50 elementary schoolteacher positions. Although officials are not yet able to say how each in...

Four seats up for election
(Chaffee County Times © 07/02/2009)
Four seats are up for election on the Buena Vista School District R-31 school board in the Nov. 3 election. Buena Vista School District administrative assistant Shelly Mueller said that as of June 29, incumbent Jan Ommen in District A will run again and incumbent Van Cain is undecided about running for his At-Large seat. Roxie Green of District D will not seek re-election. In District B, the schoo...

State Defines College and Workforce Ready
(Colorado Higher Ed News © 07/02/2009)
DENVER - In a joint meeting held yesterday at the State Capitol, the Colorado State Board of Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education adopted a description of “postsecondary and workforce readiness.” This was the first time in state history the two boards have met to take formal action on state policy. To read the adopted description, visit http://www.cde.state.co.us/communicatio...

Letters - Thursday
(Colorado Springs Gazette © 07/02/2009)
D-49 town hall meetings As a relatively new member and taxpayer of the Falcon School District 49 community, I have studied and reviewed the childish infighting and controversies that have wasted more than a half million dollars we paid for the education of our children. This money would have easily outfitted 31 additional classrooms with networked, Wi-Fi laptop computers in the past three yea...

Turf kerfuffle sprouts in Falcon District 49
(Colorado Springs Gazette © 07/02/2009)
Falcon School District 49 has found itself in the midst of a turf war that’s become messier than a muddy football field in a rainstorm. At the heart of the battle is the possibility that the board will vote to put artificial turf on the football field at the new Vista Ridge High School, an issue that it will take up at a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday. But even before the district pu...

Let the recall begin
(Colorado Springs Independent © 07/02/2009)
Some of them show up every day. They head straight from the office to evening rendezvous in parks, then spend long weekend afternoons in front of Walmarts. The devoted show up in matching yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the words "D-49 Community," and go door-to-door collecting signatures when most people are cooking dinner. Their mission is simple — to change the elected leadership in Fal...

Letters
(Colorado Springs Independent © 07/02/2009)
  Idol worship Idols ... can't live with them, can't figure out what to do with them when they pass unexpectedly. What a week! We've got a suspected pedophile and possible drug addict, who started out as a black man and converted over to white, and who is regarded by most humans as way, way, way off center, if not clinically insane, but we ignore all the bad stuff to give him, in kind, in...

Stranger than Fiction
(Colorado Springs Independent © 07/02/2009)
Curses, foiled again Guards caught Bobby Finley, 20, using bolt cutters to get through the chain-link fence that surrounds the jail in Miller County, Ark. He wasn't escaping, however, but trying to break into the jail to sell drugs and tobacco to prisoners. State Trooper Scott Clark told the Texarkana Gazette the case was the first one he'd worked "where somebody went to so much trouble to remove...

Talking back
(Colorado Springs Independent © 07/02/2009)
The man behind the Cesar Chavez School Network is crying foul. In a phone conversation with the Independent, network founder and CEO Lawrence Hernandez paints himself and his staff in sympathetic tones. He calls himself the victim of hostility and bias, despite what he considers a high level of quality and transparency in his operation. And, he says, his charter school network is surviving becau...

Education secretary challenges NEA on teacher pay
(Denver Post © 07/02/2009)
It was Duncan's first speech at the union's annual meeting, a gathering at which President Barack Obama was booed when he mentioned the idea of performance pay last year. "I came here today to challenge you to think differently about the role of unions in public education," Duncan told the 2.7 million-member union in San Diego. "It's not enough to focus only on issues like job security...

Developmental Disabilities Grants Aid 14 Programs
(Denver Your Hub © 07/02/2009)
More than $226,000.00 has been awarded to fourteen (14) organizations whose work will directly benefit Douglas County citizens with developmental disabilities and their families. The awards are the result of the 2009-2010 Developmental Disabilities Mill Levy Grant application and review process. A committee of citizens, parents, Developmental Pathways employees, and County employees reviewed the ...

Decline in motor vehicle registrations puts squeeze on budgets
(Fort Collins Coloradoan © 07/02/2009)
With fewer people buying new cars due to the recession, there has been a year-over-year decline in new car registrations in Larimer County that could ultimately impact everything from schools to city services. Comparing May 2008 to 2009 there has been a decline of nearly 1,000 new vehicle registrations in Larimer County. The total vehicle registrations, including renewals, for 2009 through May i...

Library district looks at financing facilities; Carbondale not on list
(Glenwood Springs Post Independent © 07/02/2009) (Registration Required)
Carbondale will not be included in the first round of financing for new public library facilities in Garfield County, due to uncertainty about a preferred new library site and some questions on the part of town trustees on how best to help facilitate the move. The Garfield County Public Library District Board of Directors is expected to decide at its regular monthly meeting tonight to move forwar...

Missing Aurora rafter's body turns up near Rancho del Rio
(Glenwood Springs Post Independent © 07/02/2009) (Registration Required)
RANCHO DEL RIO, Colorado — The body of a Front Range school administrator who went missing on the Colorado River last month was found Wednesday just upstream from Rancho del Rio. Eric Kophs, 42, of Aurora, and a friend were rafting on a fishing trip June 20 near Kremmling when Kophs was ejected from the raft. He was not wearing a life jacket. The body was found at about noon Wednesday on a...

Lifelong public servant for Garfield County dies in his sleep at age 103
(Grand Junction Daily Sentinel © 07/02/2009)
Pete Mattivi once balanced serving simultaneously as a Garfield County commissioner, New Castle’s mayor and a business owner. Only old age could wear him out, and even that took until he was more than a century old. Mattivi died Saturday at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Rifle. “He just went to sleep. He was 103, he was tired, he had lived his life,” said his daughter...

Reading On, for Mrs. Cannon: Preston schools carry on read-in tradition
(Groton Times © 07/02/2009)
By Megan Bard, Staff Writer: It's been a tradition in the elementary school for nearly 15 years. On one day each year, politicians, business professionals, parents, retired teachers, and just about any community member dedicated to children’s literacy have a chance to read to wide-eyed students. The Ann-Etta Cannon Read-In normally marks the coming of spring. The read-a-thon was renamed in Can...

Re-5J board adopts budget
(Johnstown Breeze © 07/02/2009)
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Man Who Beheaded Eagle Was A Native American
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 07/02/2009)
A young man who beheaded a bald eagle in Boulder County will not face charges. The Colorado Division of Wildlife says he had a federal permit that allowed him to use the eagle parts for religious purposes. Two hikers discovered the carcass last month at Legion Park Hill. Its head, talons and tail feathers were missing and it was wrapped in a red cloth. Wildlife officers initially thoug...

Schultz steps into superintendent shoes
(KKCO NBC 11 Grand Junction © 07/02/2009)
School District 51 officially has a new superintendent. School officials say Steve Schultz's contract went into effect yesterday and he will report for his first day on the job Monday. Schultz has served as the Assistant Superintendent for School District 51 since 2004. He replaces Dr. Tim Mill...

Two In LAUSD Sanctioned Over Recent "Bruno" Photos
(KVOR 740AM Colorado Springs © 07/02/2009)
(Los Angeles, CA) -- The flak over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" character posing with football players from Los Angeles-area Birmingham High School in the latest issue of "GQ" magazine has resulted in disciplinary action by the Superintendent. Ramon Cortines is no fan of the photo spread and said he has taken "appropriate action" against the school's principal and athletic director. Citing...

Schools make Newsweek list
(Lone Tree Voice © 07/02/2009)
Special to the News-PressThunderRidge, Highlands Ranch and Douglas County High Schools made Newsweek magazine’s 2009 list of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States.According to a ratio devised by reporter Jay Mathews called the Challenge Index, schools are ranked by dividing the number of students taking Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) and/or Cambridge tests, by ...

Peter Joseph Mattivi
(Rifle Citizen Telegram © 07/02/2009)
Peter “Pete” Joseph Mattivi, 103, of New Castle, passed away at the Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Rifle on June 27, 2009, very peacefully in his sleep. He was born on Sept. 8, 1905, to Pete and Maria Mattivi in Crystal, Colorado. Pete lived for a time in Marble and Crystal where his father worked in the mines and the marble mill. The family then moved to the Canyon Creek area ...

Rafter’s body found in Eagle County
(Steamboat Pilot and Today © 07/02/2009)
Eagle County — The body of a Front Range school administrator who went missing on the Colorado River last month was found Wednesday just upstream from Rancho del Rio. Eric Kophs, 42, of Aurora, and a friend were rafting on a fishing trip June 20 near Kremmling when Kophs was ejected from the raft. He was not wearing a life jacket. The body was found at about noon Wednesday on an island in...

Colo. education officials take early step in setting new standards
(Aurora Sentinel-Daily Sun © 07/01/2009)
DENVER | The state departments of education and higher education met Tuesday to formally define standards for postsecondary and workforce readiness in education.The definition aims to prepare high school graduates for college, the workforce and the global economy by emphasizing knowledge and skills in critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, global and cultural awareness, civic responsibili...

Boulder High principal finalists field questions
(Boulder Daily Camera © 07/01/2009) (Registration Required)
By Vanessa Miller (Contact) Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Boulder High principal finalists Name: Kent Henson Education: Bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Central Michigan University; master’s degree in teaching from Central Michigan University; administrative certificate from Grand Valley State University Professional experience: Science and physical ...

BODY FOUND ON 16TH STREET MALL
(Denver Daily News © 07/01/2009)
Joshua Wolpe, DDN Staff WriterWednesday, July 1, 2009   BODY FOUND ON 16TH STREET MALL: Denver Police were called yesterday morning around 7 after a body was discovered in the median between Tremont and Glenarm on the 16th Street Mall. Denver Police said the victim was a homeless man. No signs of foul play were reported. The man?s identity was not released. The mall shuttle was temporarily c...

Longtime Garfield official Mattivi dies
(Denver Post © 07/01/2009)
Mattivi's daughter Pam Bunn says Mattivi died Saturday in his sleep. Mattivi once served simultaneously as a Garfield County commissioner and mayor of New Castle. He also owned a Studebaker car dealership in New Castle. Mattivi was commissioner from 1957 to 1977, and was mayor of New Castle twice, finishing his last term in 1981. He also found time to serve 10 years on a local school b...

Panels back ABCs of new grad criteria in Colorado
(Denver Post © 07/01/2009)
For the first time, Colorado is spelling out exactly what 12th-graders should know before heading to college or entering the workforce. The state school board and the higher education commission approved new standards Tuesday intended to align high school instruction with the business world, vocational-tech schools and universities. The move was part of a three-year overhaul of education in ...

People: Farrah Fawcett, Lee Majors reconnected before death
(Denver Post © 07/01/2009)
Shortly before she died of cancer, Farrah Fawcett reconnected with her ex-husband, Lee Majors, after more than two decades of silence. "When Farrah got diagnosed, and it became public, Lee started calling Farrah's close friends to get updates on her," a source told Us magazine. "He did that for two and a half years. He just wanted to know how she was doing because he still cared about her as a ...

Sue Catterall seeks school board seat
(Denver Your Hub © 07/01/2009)
Sue Catterall, Willow Broom Trail, Littleton, has announced her candidacy for a position on the Douglas County School Board. She seeks the seat for District B, a large area covering the western portion of the County, including the Roxborough area, as well as part of Highlands Ranch. Four of the seven seats on the Board of Education are up in the November 3 mail-in election. Sue has been heavily ...

District declares board vacancy
(Durango Herald © 07/01/2009)
Durango School District 9-R officially has declared a vacancy for the District E seat on the Board of Education. The declaration of vacancy Tuesday comes after the resignation of Tammy Capdevielle, who is moving to Boulder with her family. The vacancy sets in motion a process to appoint a replacement. ...

More graduates join Teach for America
(Durango Herald © 07/01/2009)
WASHINGTON - Facing a tight job market, a record number of college graduates are joining the ranks of Teach for America, the program that trains top students to teach in poor communities - more than the program can accept. When school starts this fall, Teach for America will send 4,100 new recruits int...

A big CAP4K task is finished
(Education News Colorado © 07/01/2009)
Colorado’s two statewide education boards Tuesday formally adopted a description of postsecondary and workforce readiness, a key requirement of 2008’s Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids education reform program. The three-page document details “the knowledge, skills and behaviors essential for high school graduates to be prepared to enter college and the workforce and to compete in the global eco...

Guest article: Charter glass half full
(Education News Colorado © 07/01/2009)
Recently, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University (CREDO) released a new report entitled, “Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States.” While, on a national level, the conclusions about charters were mixed, we were extremely pleased to see the report state that charter schools in Denver are outpacing their district peers and are “providing superior educa...

Construction projects plentiful in De Beque
(Grand Junction Daily Sentinel © 07/01/2009)
There is a construction boom in De Beque, bringing development along the Interstate 70 corridor, but also concerns that new stores will divert customers from downtown businesses. South of town, across I-70, water lines are being laid along V Road up to the Schlumberger Energy Services site. At the intersection of I-70 and 45.5 Road, the roads are being widened to accommodate future traffi...

Test scores to improve, new school chief says
(Grand Junction Daily Sentinel © 07/01/2009)
Steve Schultz expects test scores and content standards to rise in School District 51 in the near future. He has reasons, personal and professional, to advocate for the district’s success. Schultz will serve at the district’s helm as superintendent for at least the next three years, per his contract. Schultz’s contract went into effect this morning, bumping him from assistant...

Denver Public Schools to place four properties on market
(InDenverTimes.com © 07/01/2009)
In May 2008, the Urban Land Institute of Colorado (ULI) began working with then-Superintendent Michael Bennet to analyze 12 Denver Public Schools (DPS) properties. The purpose was to sell or lease unneeded properties in order to raise funds to improve public education, while keeping key properties for future school expansion.   In August 2008, the DPS board unanimously approved these recommen...

L.A. Superintendent Irked By 'Bruno' School Photo
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 07/01/2009)
The chief of the nation's second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's magazine photo shoot with high school football players. Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines isn't amused by the GQ magazine photos shot at Birmingham High School that feature the "Borat" star in his new incarnation as gay Austrian fashionista "Bruno." The GQ cover story features pic...

State Announces '21st Century Education Reform'
(KMGH ABC 7 Denver © 07/01/2009)
DENVER -- There are big changes under way for Colorado schools. The Colorado State Board of Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education said there would soon be a "fluid set of standards" in all of the state's K-12 schools. The state's mission is to better track the progress of students and encourage them to pursue post-secondary educations. The Cherry Creek School District said 8...

Back to School: 2009-2010
(KRDO ABC 13 Colorado Springs © 07/01/2009)
© Nancy Louie Provided by Census.gov Back to School is a time that many children eagerly anticipate - catching up with old friends, making new ones and settling into a new daily routine. Parents and children alike scan the newspapers and Web sites looking for sales to shop for a multitude of school supplies and the latest clothing fads and essentials. This edition of Fa...

Super souvenirs from the great outdoors
(KRDO ABC 13 Colorado Springs © 07/01/2009)
Collect conservatively: A handful of beautiful specimens displayed on your child's desk will be much more meaningful than a bucketful down in your basement. © iStockphoto.com/Elena Elisseeva From the craggy Maine coast to the California redwoods, summer vacations often take us to utterly amazing places in nature. And it's a given that kids want to take a piece of these...

Bus service trimmed
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/01/2009)
Some Pueblo County School District 70 students will need to walk to school or find other means of transportation this fall under a new plan approved Tuesday by the school board.As part of a measure to cut costs in the transportation department, the school board agreed to a couple of changes with busing for the coming school year, including requiring students living within a certain distance of a...

D70 OKs superintendent pay raise, adopts budget
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/01/2009)
Pueblo County School District 70 Superintendent Dan Lere on Tuesday was granted a 2.3 percent salary increase for the 2009-10 school year.At a special meeting, the school board agreed to the salary hike, which will bring Lere's annual pay to $131,770, an increase of $3,060.Jan Reed, board president, said Lere's pay raise coincides with an identical increase granted to classified employees during t...

Fountain Creek farmer to fill vacancy on board
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/01/2009)
Jane Rhodes will fill the eighth seat on the Fountain Creek Flood Control and Greenway District board.Pueblo County commissioners Tuesday named Rhodes, a third-generation farmer on Fountain Creek, as their selection for a joint city-county appointment to the board.Pueblo City Council earlier passed a resolution naming Rhodes as one of two finalists from a list of 11 who applied for the post. Counc...

Senators announce judicial nominees
(Pueblo Chieftain © 07/01/2009)
DENVER - Four Denver-area state judges and two Denver lawyers are on a list for filling two vacancies on the U.S. District Court for Colorado.Colorado's two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday they submitted their six recommendations for the short-handed court to President Barack Obama.Presidents nominate federal judges and the Senate must confirm the nominees.Sens. Mark Udall and Michael B...

Bordens, Holiday Inn, Esswein win philanthropist awards
(Steamboat Pilot and Today © 07/01/2009)
Steamboat Springs — It was her day to be thanked, but Janet Borden had to express some gratitude of her own Sunday. She was appreciative that the city of Steamboat Springs provides a legal means for her husband, Tim, to exercise his obsession with fire. The Bordens were recognized Sunday by the Yampa Valley Com­­munity Foundation as this year’s individual Philanthropists of the Year. Among ...

King to retain seat
(Superior Observer © 07/01/2009)
Following a June meeting of the Boulder Valley Board of Education, it was announced that Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Chris King?s contract would allowed to automatically extend another year, through June 30, 2012. Under the terms of King?s original contract, signed in 2007 with BVSD, he is evaluated annually and unless the school board acts otherwise, his contract?s expiration ...

Gary Rawls Accepts Districts Offer for Athletic Director Position
(Telluride Watch © 07/01/2009)
RIDGWAY SCHOOL BRIEFS RIDGWAY – Former Montrose High School Assistant Principal Gary Rawls accepted the Ridgway School Board’s offer to become the district’s next part-time athletic director on Tuesday after the board decided to offer him the job at a special meeting on June 16. Michelle Pottorff, executive assistant to the superintendent and board of education, reported on Tuesday morning that...

Save the School Food
(Telluride Watch © 07/01/2009)
Editor: It has been brought to our attention that the excellent breakfast and lunch program at Ridgway Secondary School may be in jeopardy. Members of the community may remember that a "Wellness and Nutrition Committee" was formed back in 2005 at the request of the school board to research ways to improve upon the nutritive value of the food served to our students.  The Wellness and Nutrition Co...

Big names explore big ideas this week at Aspen Institute
(Aspen Daily News © 06/30/2009)
The 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival opened Monday night with a smattering of ambitious, dissonant and indeed “big” ideas. Finding life on other planets. Curbing domestic violence. Getting a global plan together for cutting carbon emissions. Keeping children safe and in school. Solving the ongoing economic crisis. Treating prisoners of war humanely. Saving journalism. Enhancing American public education...

Burlingame housing funding vote pushed back to November 2010
(Aspen Daily News © 06/30/2009)
The city of Aspen won’t pursue any funding to complete the Burlingame affordable housing project until at least November 2010. But city officials will be moving forward on the project and are asking the council for an additional $336,000 to hire an architect who can begin drawing detailed plans for the additional 160 or so units the city hopes to build on the property near Buttermilk and the Airp...

Meanwhile, out at Burlingame Ranch
(Aspen Times © 06/30/2009) (Registration Required)
ASPEN — Plans for the second phase of Aspen's largest and most controversial housing development are inching along, and elected officials are considering a delayed schedule that includes asking for a multi-million dollar bond next year and an increased budget for initial design work. The Aspen City Council will discuss tonight the future development of Burlingame Ranch, which when completed...

CCHE, State Board Meet to Adopt “Postsecondary, Workforce Readiness” Descrip
(Colorado Higher Ed News © 06/30/2009)
DENVER - The Colorado State Board of Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education will jointly host a meeting in Denver today, June 30, to adopt a description of “postsecondary and workforce readiness.” The meeting is in Denver at 10 a.m. at the State Capitol, House Committee Room 112. Items on the agenda include: * Welcome and Introductions * Comments from Governor Bill Ritter *...

Texas juvenile jail sex assault case stalls again
(Denver Post © 06/30/2009)
But the cases have languished in court. And the delay could spell trouble for the prosecution, say attorneys and legal scholars. "Memories fade and peoples' commitment to seeing justice done sometimes seems less urgent," said Michele Deitch, a lawyer who teaches juvenile justice policy at the University of Texas in Austin. "There are many good reasons why trials are supposed to be held...

Parents say arts education a key voting factor
(Denver Your Hub © 06/30/2009)
Parents to share concerns with legislators on Arts Advocacy Day DENVER - March 6, 2008 - Think 360 Arts, a Colorado-based arts education organization, released the results of a statewide study today suggesting that arts education will be on the minds of Colorado parents when they select their elected officials this November. Nearly 90 percent of respondents indicated that they would be more like...

Legislators meet to reform financing of Colorado schools
(Durango Herald © 06/30/2009)
DENVER - Legislators started an effort Monday to reform the way Colorado pays for its public schools - the second such attempt in five years. Critics point to a number of failings of the current School Finance Act, saying it's unfair to rural district...

BEST board saves $45 million
(Education News Colorado © 06/30/2009)
The state Public School Capital Construction Assistance Board Monday voted to change the financing for three school construction projects, saving $45 million in the process. The board previously had approved (and the State Board of Education ratified) projects for the Alamosa, Sangre de Cristo and Sargent school districts in the San Luis Valley. But the board’s action Monday switches the financi...

Westminster union protests high school hiring
(Education News Colorado © 06/30/2009)
More than a dozen staff members have filed grievances against District 50 over staffing decisions for the new Westminster High School. The Adams County School District 50 administration recently finished hiring for the new high school, opening in fall 2010. All chosen employees will be on staff at the current school this fall in preparation for the new school. Westminster Education Association...

Controversial Burlingame development in Aspen inches forward
(Glenwood Springs Post Independent © 06/30/2009) (Registration Required)
ASPEN — Plans for the second phase of Aspen's largest and most controversial housing development are inching along, and elected officials are considering a delayed schedule that includes asking for a multi-million dollar bond next year and an increased budget for initial design work. The Aspen City Council will discuss tonight the future development of Burlingame Ranch, which when completed...

Flying discs crowding airspace over Grand Junction park
(Grand Junction Daily Sentinel © 06/30/2009)
Avid disc golf player Chad Pasterz has seen the close calls when the flying, plastic orbs whiz over the heads of children playing on equipment at Westlake Park. The park is lined with a generous walking path near the intersection of First Street and Orchard Avenue, behind West Middle School. The park long has served as both a playground for children and a disc golf course. But as it steadily...

Board of education policy manual on Net
(Greeley Tribune © 06/30/2009) (Registration Required)
Greeley-Evans School District 6 has placed the latest version of its board of education policy manual on the Internet. The policy manual was approved at the board's June 22 meeting. To view the policies, go to www.greeleyschools.org and click “policy manual” under the “board of education” tab. facebook...

'Bruno' photos infuriate schools chief
(KBPI 106 Denver © 06/30/2009)
Los Angeles' top school official says he is infuriated by photos from a GQ story of "Bruno" wearing only shoulder pads, tight red shorts, an athletic supporter and socks doing football drills. LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Los Angeles' top school official says he is infuriated by published photos of "Bruno" star Sacha Baron Cohen doing drills with a high school football ...

Teton County Approves Virtual Education Program
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 06/30/2009)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) ― Teton County School District 1 has approved virtual education for students starting this fall. Connections Academy is a nationwide, for-profit virtual education program for students in all grades. The Connections Academy Web site says all its teachers are state-certified. School district officials say most teachers at Jackson Hole Connections Academy will be...

LA schools chief fuming over 'Bruno' magazine photo shoot at San Fernando Valley school
(KDVR FOX 31 Denver © 06/30/2009)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chief of the nation's second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's magazine photo shoot with high school football players. Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines isn't amused by the GQ magazine photos shot at Birmingham High School that feature the "Borat" star in his new incarnation as gay Austrian fashionista "Bruno." ...

LA schools chief fumes over `Bruno' school photos
(KUSA NBC 9 Denver © 06/30/2009)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chief of the nation's second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's magazine photo shoot with high school football players. Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines isn't amused by the GQ magazine photos shot at Birmingham High School that feature the "Borat" star in his new incarnation as gay Austrian fashionista "Bruno." The GQ cover st...

Chicano Movement retrospective planned today
(Pueblo Chieftain © 06/30/2009)
The University Library of Colorado State University-Pueblo has scheduled a reception and presentation from 5 to 7 p.m. today at El Centro del Quinto Sol Community Center, 609 N. Erie Ave., to introduce its newly created Colorado Chicano Movement archives.The event will include entertainment, recognition of donors, an informational presentation by interim university archivist Beverly Allen and a pr...

D70 may set budget today
(Pueblo Chieftain © 06/30/2009)
The Pueblo County District 70 Board of Education is scheduled to take action today on a final budget for the 2009-10 school year.A meeting is slated at noon in the Administrative Services Center, 24951 U.S. 50 East.Earlier this month, the board reviewed a proposed $57 million budget, which is about a decrease of $3.5 million from the current budget.The proposed budget reflects a number of cuts mad...

Hospital, fire districts: tax relief possible
(Aspen Daily News © 06/29/2009)
Pitkin County property owners seeking relief from high property valuations might find an empathetic ear at the hospital and the Aspen and Basalt fire districts. For the last two years, the hospital has reduced its mill levy of 1.280 by half. Instead of collecting $1.6 million per year, it left $800,000 uncollected from local taxpayers, and earmarked the other $800,000 a year for employee housing....

Priorities debated in Wheeler addition
(Aspen Daily News © 06/29/2009)
The design of a proposed addition to the Wheeler Opera House continues to evolve, although some say the most recent changes don’t go far enough. Project architects recently altered the four story addition to the circa-1890s historic theater by pulling the fourth floor further back and carving out a 10-foot by 60-foot setback at the addition’s entrance, which had until recently come up to the stre...

New superintendent to start Wednesday
(Craig Daily Press © 06/29/2009)
Joseph Petrone Joe Petrone won’t officially become Moffat County School District superintendent until Wednesday, but he has been visiting Craig and attending district meetings since mid-April. “It’s been very healthy for me to just be here these last few months,” Petrone said in a work session before Thurs­day’s School Board meeting. “We want to make this transition as smooth as possible.” J...

Schools get graded
(Denver Daily News © 06/29/2009)
Educators weigh in on their schools via surveyTODD ENGDAHL, EDUCATION NEWS COLORADOMonday, June 29, 2009   By TODD ENGDAHL EDUCATION NEWS COLORADO What do Colorado educators think about their supervisors, roles in decision-making, school working conditions and the amount of time they have available to do their jobs? Results of a new state survey provide some insights. The TELL (Teaching, Emp...

PSD praised for expansion dialogue
(Fort Collins Coloradoan © 06/29/2009)
On Tuesday, the Poudre School District Board of Education voted to expand the educational opportunities for the students of the district by allowing Liberty Common School to expand its operations in response to the community's desire for educational choices. On behalf of the Liberty Common School board of directors and expansion committee, I would like to acknowledge and thank the Poudre School D...

Let's celebrate our freedoms while we still have some left
(Glenwood Springs Post Independent © 06/29/2009) (Registration Required)
The celebration of our freedom called “independence” will happen shortly after you read this. We ostensibly celebrate our freedom as Americans — freedom to speak our minds, freedom to pursue our dreams and freedom to worship the God who created this beautiful universe, the God who gave us unique talents and remarkable individuality. Every year there is less freedom to celebrate....

The Met: Lean left or right, just be sure to care
(InDenverTimes.com © 06/29/2009)
Samuel Blackmer is a writer and editor at The Metropolitan, the student-produced newspaper at Metro State College of Denver. Finding someone to write editorials for a college newspaper seems to be quite a challenge. Finding a conservative viewpoint seems to be twice the challenge. There are two elements working against the editor, college campuses being liberal and newsrooms leaning to the left...

Saturday School Among Changes At Troubled Schools
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 06/29/2009)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ― Saturday school, smaller class sizes and more teacher training are among the changes coming to two Wyoming schools with low test scores. The schools' reforms have been approved by the Wyoming State Board of Education after they were required under federal law to submit restructuring plans. Cooperative High School in Carbon and Johnson Junior High School in ...

Shot Glasses Given As Favors At Prom
(KCNC CBS 4 Denver © 06/29/2009)
Officials in a town in New York's Catskill Mountains are frowning on the party favors given to students at a recent high school prom -- shot glasses.   Onteora School District Superintendent Leslie Ford told the Daily Freeman for a story Saturday that she has revised school policies to make sure no such favors are given again. The glasses, typically used for liquor, were given out t...

School board approves new textbooks for district
(Montrose Daily Press © 06/29/2009)
MONTROSE — Montrose and Olathe middle and high schools will be cracking open some brand new textbooks in the fall.The Montrose County School District RE-1J school board approved the district’s plan at its June 23 meeting to purchase new math and literacy adoption program textbooks for classroom use. Math textbooks will cost the district $190,194.94 and literacy textbooks will cost...

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