The Learning Source, a nonprofit resource for adult education classes and family literacy, is seeking volunteers in the Salida, Buena Vista and Leadville areas.
Sometimes, the challenges that face communities are just too big for one organization to tackle alone. With that in mind, United Way of Lane County has just awarded $300,000 in coalition grants to help groups work collectively to solve big problems.
The 2019 data release from the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer news of much progress. The test, administered in schools biannually since 1969, had shown only lackluster academic growth in most states for over a decade. The latest scores suggested more of the same, with meaningful declines in fourth- and eighth-grade English. Peggy […]