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Part 2 in a 4-part series by COLab, Chalkbeat, Colorado Sun and KFF Health News focuses on hard hit rural Colorado. A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.

At first glance, nothing seems particularly unusual about the four-room school in this western Colorado city. Inside, six students are learning about radioactivity. The walls of their classroom are plastered

A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.

A single facility school serves all of Colorado’s Western Slope, while rural school districts struggle to hire skilled special education staff.

A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.

If a tax hike referendum is approved by voters, for the next 20 years, parents and community members in Buffalo Grove-based Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary School Dist. 102 would be on the hook for a $49 million tax hike to upgrade infrastructure, safety needs and resolve overcrowding. Because several who are asking for the funding will not

McIntyre Buffalo Grove’s Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary School Dist. 102 school board members Monday, Feb. 27 announced that Jessica McIntyre will assume the role of superintendent starting July 1, 2024, replacing Lori Wilcox, who will retire. McIntyre’s contract will be approved in the coming weeks, according to Board President Ellyn Ross. McIntyre has served Dist. 102 since

Buffalo Grove-based Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary District 102 will ask voters April 4 to approve a $49 million bond issue to fund building upgrades and add classrooms.

Updated 12/15/2020 5:37 PM At first glance, Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary School District 102s tax levy increase might raise some eyebrows. But the explanation for the nearly 15% hike given by Stacey Bachar, assistant superintendent for business services, likely soothed any irate residents attending Monday nights virtual public hearing. The school board Monday passed a 14.89% tax levy increase for 2020, with the estimated total property taxes to be levied and collected in 2021 at $38.2 million.  ...