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The Adams 14 school district will have a new superintendent this summer.
The board voted unanimously Friday to appoint Karla Loria, the sole finalist, as superintendent to start in July. The district must still negotiate a contract with Loria.
Loria, a native of Costa Rica, is currently the chief academic officer for the Clark County School District, in Las Vegas, Nevada, the fifth-largest district in the U.S.
Loria was initially one of two candidates named by the school board for the job. But shortly after a virtual community forum where the board interviewed both candidates in public, the second finalist stepped out of the running.
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The Adams 14 school board announced two finalists for the superintendent position and will be taking feedback from the public before narrowing down the selection.
Both finalists are long-time bilingual educators.
Karla Loria, currently the chief academic officer in the Clark County School District in Nevada, studied and worked for some time in Costa Rica, and has held leadership roles in Houston and in the Harrison school district in Colorado Springs.
Stephen Linkous, the chief of staff of the Kansas City school district in Kansas, graduated from Denver’s North High School and studied at the University of Denver.
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Adams County School District 14 (Adams 14) has purchased and installed over 400 Synexis Spheres units in classrooms and common areas in buildings throughout the district. The district received funding for the new technology through its Safe Schools Reopening Grant and a partnership with Trane Technologies.
The Synexis Spheres use microbial reduction technology, which continuously reduces microbes in the air and on surfaces. According to the company, the new patented technology reduces viruses, bacteria, mold, odors, and insects both in the air and on surfaces, without relying on the exchange of air, while still continuously flowing through any indoor space without students or staff leaving the room.
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Colorado awarded $27 million in education grants to 19 programs aimed at helping students in communities hit hard by the pandemic, Gov. Jared Polis and state officials announced Monday.
The announcement represents the second round of funding under the RISE grant program, which emphasizes cooperative programs between school districts, charter schools, and higher education institutions to help students who are more likely to suffer long-term impacts from learning disruption caused by the pandemic. Colorado distributed $13 million in the first round.
“One thing we know from the pandemic is that it highlighted some of the preexisting gaps that we have in education,” Polis said. “That’s not a short-term fix or something you can change in one school year.”