Page 3 - Dave Baugh News Today

Students in the Aspen High School’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance developed a presentation for faculty with tips about how to support transgender students. They were inspired, in part, by the Roaring Fork School District’s recently adopted “gender expansive” toolkit.

Aspen School District superintendent Dave Baugh chats with Aspen Public Radio about the challenges the district is facing during the 2022-23 school year.

Three students in the Roaring Fork Valley deal with numbness and anger after 19 children and two teachers died at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Superintendents at the Aspen and Roaring Fork school districts share their disappointment and calls to action.

On Feb. 22 the public health order that mandates masks in Pitkin County will expire. And new guidelines from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment suggest schools become mask optional. The Aspen School District plans to follow those guidelines, but some students have mixed feelings about the change.

What does it mean to be “the best”? Aspen School District Board of Education have been chewing on that question for weeks as school officials fine-tune what will eventually become a five-year strategic plan that includes a vision and a mission for Aspen’s public schools.