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On May 14, Pueblo Community College will graduate nine students from its first bachelor of science in nursing program. The degree program came about after the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation in 2018 which allowed community colleges across the state to offer bachelor s degrees in nursing. The bill was in response to the increasing demand for nurses across Colorado and the shortage of bachelor s level nurses in the state. One of the nine graduates of PCC s bachelor s in nursing program, Robert Wright, will be able to use his bachelor s to move up at Parkview Health System where he works as a registered nurse (RN) in the cardio-thoracic surgery department. ....
It will begin as a K-9 school this fall and will add a new grade level each year until it s fully complete as a K-12 school in 2024. Core knowledge concepts are implemented and at each grade level, there are certain expectations for students before they move on to the next level, Dave Martin, interim executive director of PSAS, said. There are content standards that we develop for each grade level. Another part of the classical learning approach is its leadership model. Students are given different leadership roles and have certain responsibilities. Examples of student responsibilities include managing outcomes within their classes. ....
This legislation comes as states across the country are trying to make media literacy a part of the school curriculum to teach students about thinking critically when consuming media, to question where the information is coming from and to differentiate fact from fiction. This is a critical and urgent issue. We have to stop thinking about this in the terms of partisanship and really focus on what our country and children need, said Erin McNeill, president and founder of Media Literacy Now, a nonprofit that works to get media literacy education in K-12 schools across the United States. McNeill, a former journalist for Congressional Quarterly, said her organization s proposals include students learning to examine different types of images and videos coming from different forms of media. ....
The rebranding comes as Parkview has continued to expand over the years to more than just the medical center in downtown Pueblo. We re not just a medical center anymore, we re not just this one campus, said Parkview CEO Leslie Barnes. We have clinics that are all over the community, medical office complexes all over the city and we are going to have a new hospital in Pueblo West. The rebranding efforts began in June 2020. I think it better describes what we do and all the places where we are, Barnes said. We provide the majority of health care in this community. ....
The coronavirus pandemic has put a heavy burden on education and teachers in particular. One local teacher saw the pandemic as an opportunity to utilize her time at home by continuing her education and moving up the ladder in her career. Lori Ann Jones, a special education teacher at Pueblo County High School, used the stimulus check she received from the CARES Act to return to school and get her second master s degree in order to move up the pay scale at Pueblo County School District 70. As a single mom, I m always looking for ways to support my daughter and myself, Jones said. Having an additional master s degree would bump up my salary level at the school district. ....