D11 announces return to school plan
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and last updated 2020-12-16 19:49:37-05
COLORADO SPRINGS â Colorado Springs School District 11 released its back to school plan for the spring semester Wednesday.
The district said that based on recommendations from El Paso County Public Health the district has decided to go with the following timeline. All students will return to remote learning on January 6. Then all students will return to school on January 19.
Elementary students will return to in-person learning. Secondary students will resume a hybrid schedule. Families will still have the choice to keep students fully online or have them return to in-person learning.
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The April 6, 2021, city election offers voters a chance to decide a majority of members on City Council at a time when many say decisions about land-use and other matters will have long-lasting impacts on the cityâs future.Â
Six of nine Council seats are up for grabs, and three of those six are open seats because term limits bar incumbents from seeking a third four-year term. The other three incumbents can run, but one may not, which would throw another seat into the mix.
So far, those interested in running include a retired Army colonel, a televangelist and a firefighter who is eligible to seek a Council seat due to a recent change in the cityâs Personnel Policy Manual. Heâd have to give up his city job if elected.
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MITRE, a national nonprofit research organization, has released results of a study testing the efficacy of methods meant to reduce exhaled airborne particles, like those that cause COVID-19. The study used buses from Mountain Metropolitan Transit and Colorado Springs School District 11 in over 124 miles of on-the-road testing that yielded 78.3 million data points, according to a news release.
More than 84 test runs on both school buses and low-floor transit buses used a mechanical cough simulator to disperse a test aerosol while the buses drove normal routes between Aug. 3 and Sept. 4, 2020, the release said.
Key findings: Wearing masks reduced overall particle count by an average of 50 percent; opening windows and running dashboard fans reduced particle counts by an average of 84 and 50 percent on school and transit buses, respectively; transit bus HVAC systems, when used with MERV-13 air filters, eliminated ai
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DENVER Enrollment in Colorado public schools has dropped by about 30,000 students this year, or 3%, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first year-to-year decrease in the state public school system reported in over 30 years, officials said.
The state Department of Education announced preliminary enrollment figures on Tuesday after students were counted in October, The Colorado Sun reported.
Some of the state’s 178 school districts suffered 10% enrollment decreases during the academic year, officials said, citing concerns about district budgets which are based on student counts.
School districts could suffer significant financial losses depending on how the Legislature decides to fund education during the next legislative session, said Colorado School Finance Project Executive Director Tracie Rainey.
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