Adams County 14 School District, which has struggled with low academic performance for more than a decade, has received two reports from the Colorado State Review Panel highlighting the progress
The embattled Adams County 14 School District now has a secure future, following the recommendation by a committee made up of neighboring school districts' leaders that dissolution was not the best path forward a recommendation the state education commissioner accepted Thursday.
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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.