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Students, parents protest some District 11 schools moving to remote learning KRDO COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- More than a dozen students, parents and community members protested outside the District 11 administration building Friday, against officials decision to move some schools to remote learning, following an influx of COVID-19 cases. The district announced at least seven schools have been placed on remote learning, including Palmer High School, Doherty High School, Coronado High Scho...

Cheyenne Mountain High School hosts first mobile vaccination clinic to help curb COVID-19 school outbreaks KRDO COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Cheyenne Mountain High School hosted its first mobile vaccination clinic on Wednesday, in a multi-agency partnership aimed at reducing COVID-19 case outbreaks affecting El Paso County schools. The clinic, coordinated in part by Nomi Health, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and El Paso County Public Health, vaccinated at leas...

Allen, in hat, accused the Board of Education of harming “poor Blacks” in D11. Heidi Beedle Colorado Springs School District 11’s April 14 Board of Education meeting featured such a plethora of public commenters — many refusing to wear masks in the increasingly crowded administration building’s hallway — that Deputy Superintendent Dave Engstrom had to arrange for overflow viewing of the meeting in an adjacent building due to capa...

Woodland Park’s Allie Tring returns the ball during a game against Coronado at Woodland Park High School on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. CHSAA required for both volleyball and basketball prep athletes and coaches to wear masks during competition this year. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT

Seventh-grader Garin Huxman cleans out his locker on May 19, 2020, at North Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Students at the District 11 school were allowed to return to school this week to clean out their lockers and collect their belongings left at the school after it was closed March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The students were escorted into the school by a staff member, no more than 10 at a time, and the building crew disinfected the lockers immediately afterward. Christia...

Seventh-grader Garin Huxman cleans out his locker on May 19, 2020, at North Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Students at the District 11 school were allowed to return to school this week to clean out their lockers and collect their belongings left at the school after it was closed March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The students were escorted into the school by a staff member, no more than 10 at a time, and the building crew disinfected the lockers immediately afterward. Christia...

At last year’s graduation for Academy High School at the Academy D-20 stadium, graduates were seated between two family or friends and 6 feet apart from others, in keeping with COVID-19 guidelines. In this file photo from June 28, 2020, Jenna Richards has her name called as her dad, Jeff Richards, leans forward in his seat to capture the moment on his cell phone camera. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE

At last year’s graduation for Academy High School at the Academy D-20 stadium, graduates were seated between two family or friends and 6 feet apart from others, in keeping with COVID-19 guidelines. In this file photo from June 28, 2020, Jenna Richards has her name called as her dad, Jeff Richards, leans forward in his seat to capture the moment on his cell phone camera. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE

Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette The stone masonry over the door at West Middle School reads 1924. A group of students enter the school on April 7. Under a proposal from the District 11 School Board, 16 schools would be renovated or rebuilt, including the West campus, and all schools would see upgrades. Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette

The stone masonry over the door at West Middle School reads 1924. A group of students enter the school on Tuesday, April 7, 2021. Under a proposal from the District 11 School Board, 16 schools would be renovated or rebuilt, including the West campus, and all schools would see upgrades. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT