End-of-year field trips to the zoo, Garden of the Gods and college campuses have been called off for Atlas Preparatory School students because thieves stole catalytic converters from two activity buses last week.
Administrators at the charter school, which primarily serves low-income students in southeast Colorado Springs, also are scrambling to figure out how athletes can get to girls’ soccer games and track-and-field meets over the remaining few weeks of school.
“It’s rather unfortunate,” Brittney M. Stroh, executive director of Atlas Prep, which enrolls 1,100 kindergarten through 12th graders.
“We’re in the last four weeks of school, and we don’t have any way to transport kids to cultural and recreational field trips and sporting events.
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When she was a brand-new legislator besieged by lobbyists at the entrance to the Senate floor, state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger felt a tap on the shoulder from a man telling her she was late for her next committee. She rushed to the elevator, and the man accompanied her all the way to the committee room, securing several minutes of one-on-one time to make the case for his client’s bill.
When Zenzinger pushed open the door to the committee hearing room, there was no one else there. The meeting wasn’t even close to starting.
Now that Zenzinger serves as chair of the Senate Education Committee, education lobbyists don’t have to use creative tactics to get her attention. She meets weekly with key players ranging from the Colorado Education Association to Democrats for Education Reform to go over upcoming bills and hear their concerns.
Fifteen-year-old Aimee Wright was sitting in her last class on Thursday when she heard Coronado High School was switching back from in-person learning to remote instruction on Friday.
“We were just about to put on a play and did the opening and closing night yesterday, but we can’t perform tonight or tomorrow,” she said Friday at a protest in front of Colorado Springs School District 11’s administration building.
“At first I was angry, and now I’m just sad,” she said. “I don’t think any of this is for our safety. There doesn’t seem to be any reason.”
It s just devastating: Parents, students protest D11 s decision to move to remote learning, postpone activities
On Friday, some parents from school District 11 participated in a protest after learning the district will send some schools back to remote learning due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â More than a dozen parents and students protested outside of Colorado Springs District 11 s Administration Building Friday against the decision to move seven schools to remote learning and postpone end of the year activities and events.
The decision comes after a spike in COVID-19 cases among staff and students, but parents and students expressing frustration over the unexpected postponements of major milestones such as prom.
Many school districts opting for outdoor graduations again this year
D2, D11, D20 and D49 all say graduates will be handed their diplomas outdoors
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COLORADO SPRINGS â Come may, most high school graduates in southern Colorado will be handed their diplomas outside.
Colorado Springs School District 11 officials say theyâll allow graduates to have up to six guests in the stands at Garry Berry Stadium, where all of the districtâs high schools will hold graduation this year. They say they will be handing graduates their diplomas this year something they couldnât do last year since there was so much uncertainty over the virus.