| | | With school just around the corner, students are stocking up on the newest, coolest gadgets. But the Better Business Bureau is advising them to be aware of potential theft.
Full Story Due to a layout error, the years of the scores in the reading, writing and math charts of the Colorado Student Assessment Program that were published on Pages 8A through 11A of Thursday's Camera were transposed.
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Boulder Valley School District's statewide test scores are flat overall, mirroring the state and reflecting a multi-year trend of high overall performance but little forward movement.
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For Centaurus High sophomore Ryan Kealiher, the tragic events of Sept. 11 have faded like a jumble of distant television images seen through the eyes of an unknowing 5-year-old. "I just remember that I was in kindergarten and people were scared," he said Monday, as his classmates in the Centaurus High School Marching Band gathered in groups to run drills on their instruments.
Full Story Three years ago, the principal at Abbi Kaplan's school asked her if she'd teach Chinese to high school students.
Full Story The trial for the state's first education funding adequacy lawsuit, Lobato vs. Colorado, is set to start Monday in Denver District Court. AndBoulder Valley parents, principals and administrators are ready to testify that the state's system for funding K-12 schools is woefully inadequate.
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A few years ago, Erie Elementary was the only elementary school in town. This fall, there will be four.
Full Story The Boulder Valley School District is inviting the public to meet new Superintendent Bruce Messinger at one of two community receptions in August.
Full Story he Boulder Valley School District recently earned an "AA+" rating, with a stable outlook, from Fitch Ratings.
Full Story Two Boulder Valley school board members are hosting an information session for people interested in running for the school board in the November election.
Full Story Cali Machen used PhotoShop to merge pictures of imposing mountains and cracked, barren ground before adding a brightly colored girl walking through the dark landscape.
Full Story The Crayons to Calculators school supply drive is under way, seeking donations through the end of next week to give low-income students in the Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts the opportunity to start the school year with new supplies. This year, the goal is to put together backpacks of school supplies for 8,000 students.
Full Story Republican lawmakers are scolding the Colorado Department of Education after a political flier advocating for a Boulder senator's proposed tax increase for education was included in a back-to-school packet.
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Parents searching for preschool programs, especially those who need financial assistance, will have more options in the next few years as Boulder Valley adds spots for 3- and 4-year-olds -- and increases scholarships for families that earn a little too much to qualify for the Colorado Preschool Program spots.
Full Story Analysis of new federal data backs up assertions by Boulder Valley School District leaders that they've made strides in increasing access to advanced classes.
Full Story Parents and the principal at Horizons K-8 spent hundreds of hours applying for a highly competitive $5 million state grant that they knew was a long shot -- but also the only option to upgrade their aging building.
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The Boulder Valley School District's new superintendent spent his first day on the job much as he expects to spend the next six months: finding out more about how the district works, what's important to people and what the needs are.
Full Story LAFAYETTE -- Students start by plunging into the deep end, overwhelmed with information about the energy.
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Catalyst High School is starting its fifth year by relocating to a new building, a move that opens up expansion opportunities. The building -- at 1376 Miners Drive in Lafayette, near the intersection of South Boulder and South Public roads -- is 10,000 square feet, doubling the private school's space.
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Tatianna Medina was surprised to learn that she has French, Arabian and Italian in her background. The soon-to-be seventh-grader at Lafayette's Angevine Middle School is working on a genealogy project this summer at Boulder's Family Learning Center.
Full Story Sixteen Boulder Valley schools will get solar panels through a deal that requires the district to pay only the cost of the energy.
Full Story Boulder Valley's Arapahoe Campus is asking the state for alternative education status, allowing the high school to be held to a different standard than most of Colorado's schools.
Full Story The Boulder Valley School District, along with other large districts nationwide, has embraced credit recovery classes as another way to help struggling students.
Full Story IPads are making summer school cool. Teachers in a five-week Boulder Valley School District summer school program for second-language middle school students are incorporating iPads into their science lessons.
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The Boulder Valley School District is finishing up the largest construction program in its history, prompting the school board to consider a long-term facility plan.
Full Story Colorado Connections Academy, a tuition-free virtual public school, is hosting an information session Wednesday in Boulder for families interested in learning about its online program.
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Twenty-two Boulder Valley high school students, all who consider English their second language, are spending three weeks at the University of Colorado studying English and getting a primer on college.
Full Story Mel Shaffer and six of her classmates sat outside Boulder's Fairview High School on Wednesday afternoon talking and laughing -- a seemingly typical scene during the school year. Except these students were covered in fake blood and simulated third-degree burns.
Full Story Aided by student volunteers, the FBI and Boulder police will conduct a bomb training exercise at Fairview High School on Wednesday, the city announced today.
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Rod Falk's middle school students create their own arcade classics like "Frogger," "Pac-Man" and "Space Invaders" in his computer lab. He is among 60-some middle and high school teachers at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus this week learning video game design so they can bring the skills back to their classrooms and better engage their students.
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