The Early Childhood Education Workforce Coalition published recommendations on how to recruit educators, increase diversity, and create career advancement in early childhood education in Colorado.
Business owners, elected officials, town staff and other stakeholders meet Wednesday, July 21, for a breakout discussion during the Summit County Housing Action Initiative at the Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center in Breckenridge. The event was focused on identifying actionable steps for how various groups could work together to help mitigate the affordable housing shortage.
Coffee cups were filled, name tags were pinned and the room at Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center was buzzing with chatter from leaders across Summit County on Wednesday morning. This week, Keystone Policy Center coordinated a half-day housing summit, gathering over 90 nonprofit leaders, business owners, elected officials and town staff to brainstorm and collaborate about potential strategies that could be used to mitigate the county’s workforce housing shortage.
The Montana Racial Equity Project and American Civil Liberties Union of Montana announced in an open letter to Helena City Manager Rachel Harlow-Schalk that they are withdrawing from future meetings of the city s recently formed school resource officer working group unless certain changes are made.Â
The Helena City Commission in July directed city staff to engage in the development of a new (memorandum of understanding) to be completed by June 30th, 2021 with Helena Public Schools regarding the 21-year school resource officer program that uses city funding. Our experience at the initial Working Group meeting is that there is no interest in such a robust discussion and that the decision to keep the existing model of SROs in schools has already been made, the ACLU of Montana s Tuesday letter states.