Superintendent searches narrowing in large Colorado districts: Here s what we learned this week
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Iâm Denver7 education reporter Nicole Brady. Welcome to our new âeducation notebook,â where I will discuss the big education stories of the week and talk about the challenges and opportunities for education in Colorado.
After a couple weeks of covering tragedy and then taking some time off, Iâm back on the education beat with a lot to talk about.
First, some thoughts on our stateâs most recent mass shooting tragedy. The senseless loss of 10 lives at a Boulder King Soopers reminds me how every day we send our kids out into a potentially dangerous world. In wake of the shooting, I talked to many school districts and learned they have continued active shooting drills and teacher response training throughout the pandemic. I wish it didnât have to be this way, but Iâm grateful that our schools continue to pr
In our nationâs capital, the political party that toes the line on law and order has left the building. The party that prides itself on kinder and gentler considerations like forgiveness and second chances â now wields the levers of federal power.
That same alignment continues to prevail in Colorado. And here, the kinder, gentler party has been using its dominant status to experiment with dubious approaches to crime and punishment. Ruling Democrats repealed the stateâs nearly dormant death penalty last year and in recent legislative sessions have pondered a number of revisions to the criminal code that fit under the favored if nebulous label, ârestorative justice.â Among pending efforts in the current session are bills making it easier for some prison inmates to get paroled, and expanding juvenile diversion options for youthful offenders. Thereâs also a particularly controversial proposal curtailing copsâ power to arrest for a host of offenses and
In our nationâs capital, the political party that toes the line on law and order has left the building. The party that prides itself on kinder and gentler considerations like forgiveness and second chances â now wields the levers of federal power.
That same alignment continues to prevail in Colorado. And here, the kinder, gentler party has been using its dominant status to experiment with dubious approaches to crime and punishment. Ruling Democrats repealed the stateâs nearly dormant death penalty last year and in recent legislative sessions have pondered a number of revisions to the criminal code that fit under the favored if nebulous label, ârestorative justice.â Among pending efforts in the current session are bills making it easier for some prison inmates to get paroled, and expanding juvenile diversion options for youthful offenders. Thereâs also a particularly controversial proposal curtailing copsâ power to arrest for a host of offenses and
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A job or a civic duty? Colorado weighs paying school board members
A proposal working its way through the Colorado General Assembly would allow school board members to be compensated for their service for the first time. Author: Erica Meltzer (Chalkbeat Colorado) Published: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021 Updated: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021
DENVER More than 60% of students in the Roaring Fork School District are Hispanic, but when Jasmin Ramirez was elected in 2019, she and fellow board member Natalie Torres became the first Latinas to serve on the school board.
Like all Colorado school board seats, it’s a volunteer position that comes with no pay. That sacrifice became even more challenging when Ramirez’s husband lost his income during the pandemic. At the same time, she felt like she brought valuable perspective on the issues facing Latino students from parents facing COVID risks at work to lack of internet at home that ot