This legislation comes as states across the country are trying to make media literacy a part of the school curriculum to teach students about thinking critically when consuming media, to question where the information is coming from and to differentiate fact from fiction. This is a critical and urgent issue. We have to stop thinking about this in the terms of partisanship and really focus on what our country and children need, said Erin McNeill, president and founder of Media Literacy Now, a nonprofit that works to get media literacy education in K-12 schools across the United States.
McNeill, a former journalist for Congressional Quarterly, said her organization s proposals include students learning to examine different types of images and videos coming from different forms of media.
The rebranding comes as Parkview has continued to expand over the years to more than just the medical center in downtown Pueblo. We re not just a medical center anymore, we re not just this one campus, said Parkview CEO Leslie Barnes. We have clinics that are all over the community, medical office complexes all over the city and we are going to have a new hospital in Pueblo West.
The rebranding efforts began in June 2020. I think it better describes what we do and all the places where we are, Barnes said. We provide the majority of health care in this community.
The coronavirus pandemic has put a heavy burden on education and teachers in particular.
One local teacher saw the pandemic as an opportunity to utilize her time at home by continuing her education and moving up the ladder in her career.
Lori Ann Jones, a special education teacher at Pueblo County High School, used the stimulus check she received from the CARES Act to return to school and get her second master s degree in order to move up the pay scale at Pueblo County School District 70. As a single mom, I m always looking for ways to support my daughter and myself, Jones said. Having an additional master s degree would bump up my salary level at the school district.
Pueblo School District 60 heard from Southwest Foodservice Excellence (SFE), a K-12 food service provider based out of Arizona, as the potential candidate for taking over its cafeteria services at the May 6 meeting.
D60 held interviews with four different food service contractors who submitted proposals to the district and has narrowed down SFE as a finalist for potentially taking over the food services.
Executives from the company spoke to board members about what services SFE offers. The company describes itself as culinary based, and its chief executive officer is a chef.
The company is currently working with 165 school districts across the country.
Its recent decision will need approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Timothy Mottet, president of CSU Pueblo, spoke with The Pueblo Chieftain about how he and the board of governors came to the decision to require vaccinations.
Conversations about whether to require people on campus to get the vaccine have been ongoing among higher education leaders across Colorado, Mottet said. Collectively, through consultation with medical schools and professionals, they made the decision to take it to our board of governors, he said.
Being that students already need to be vaccinated for things like measles in order to attend the university, Mottet along with CSU system chancellor Tony Frank believed it was best to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list.