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The winners of the Jeffco school board election will help set policy in a diverse school district facing declining enrollment, significant academic gaps, and long-term budget problems. ....
While enrollment has steadily shrunk, Jeffco has not yet created a long-term plan that might address declining student numbers and the resulting shrinking budget ....
Colorado kindergarten teachers prepare for bigger class sizes, wider range of experiences 2020 saw drop in preschool and kinder enrollment Potential challenges for kindergarteners amid pandemic and last updated 2021-04-14 14:38:39-04 DENVER â The pandemic saw more Colorado parents pulling their kids out of daycare, and âredshirtingâ kindergarten-age students. The state saw a 23% drop in preschooler enrollment, and a 9% drop in kindergarten enrollment, as part of an overall school enrollment decline. Kindergarten teachers are aware of the challenges theyâll face with potentially more students and a range of preschool experiences. But they say, in kindergarten, thatâs normal. âIn a typical year. you ll have a kid who comes in who s reading, and in your typical year, you ll have kids who come in who don t know the letters of their name, and that s all normal,â said Elizabeth Smart, a kindergarten teacher at Stober Elementary ....
Home work and grades, but in new standards recently adopted by 41 states on what should be taught next year, educators have quietly replaced cursive with keyboarding. texting is my life. texting is more fun. i like watching my fingers pressing all the keys. reporter: at stober elementary in the suburbs of denver, the cursive lessons have stopped. state of georgia signed on last fall. in augusta, school administrator cheryl jones tried explaining why on the local news. they re texting and they re playing games, they re using technology that we have. reporter: soon after her comments she was called before school board members who made it clear cursive lessons would continue. i don t see having a generation of people with no signatures. very good. handwriting is very neat. reporter: jessica weinstein is fighting for cursive, arguing that the training helps her children with hand/eye coordination. she worries that some day they ....