Many Colorado families struggle to afford pricey summer camps. A nonprofit is footing the bill for hundreds
ReSchool Colorado will connect nearly 800 kids to summer learning and fun, helping them overcome an opportunity gap that extends from the school year into summer. Author: Erica Breunlin (The Colorado Sun) Published: 6:06 AM MDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 7:21 AM MDT May 11, 2021
LAFAYETTE, Colo. For many Colorado kids, options for summer break are limitless, from day and overnight camps to trips to museums and zoos. But for others, summer comes with far fewer opportunities, boiling down to those that are low cost or no cost.
In many cases, how students spend their summer is dictated by the kinds of activities, camps and learning experiences that their families can afford. The sharp differences in opportunities that kids can access during the school year are mirrored, if not magnified, during June, July and August.
Linda Weise launched her PBS show in 2020. Courtesy Simple Gift Series
Colorado Springs educator, musician and innovator Linda Weise is walking in the footsteps of the late Fred Rogers with her Rocky Mountain PBS television show,
Simple Gift Series.
Like Rogers, Weise is the creator, showrunner, writer, composer and host of the show, an educational program for young children.
The show premiered in August 2020 with a 13-episode first season. Its second season is being edited, and a third season is in development.
âItâs so fun to have our very own Mister Rogers, except sheâs called Miss Linda,â said Carrie McKee, vice president of regional innovation centers statewide at Rocky Mountain PBS.
A group of education advocates are working to put a measure on this yearâs ballot designed to enhance out-of-school learning opportunities to help youth do better in school.
The idea, which would be funded by a 5% increase in the stateâs taxes on recreational marijuana, would provide free funding for such things as tutors, special technical training or learning English or some other foreign language.
The measure would create the Colorado Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program, which also would provide for a replacement to curricula that some school districts have stopped offering because of budgetary shortfalls, such as music, dance and the arts.
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