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Pueblo County residents, school district officials calling for action after repeated flooding
They say the Vineland area constantly floods due to poor road drainage
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Monday nightâs rainfall led to some major flooding in part of Pueblo County. Now neighbors, and even the school district are upset something hasnât been done to prevent this.
and last updated 2021-05-18 20:56:21-04
PUEBLO COUNTY â Monday nightâs rainfall led to some major flooding in part of Pueblo County. Now neighbors, and even the school district are upset something hasnât been done to prevent this.
It was not what Esther Lucero and her girlfriend were hoping to wake up to.
Pueblo School District 60 and Pueblo County School District 70 announced they will be keeping COVID protocols in place for the remainder of the academic year.
This legislation comes as states across the country are trying to make media literacy a part of the school curriculum to teach students about thinking critically when consuming media, to question where the information is coming from and to differentiate fact from fiction. This is a critical and urgent issue. We have to stop thinking about this in the terms of partisanship and really focus on what our country and children need, said Erin McNeill, president and founder of Media Literacy Now, a nonprofit that works to get media literacy education in K-12 schools across the United States.
McNeill, a former journalist for Congressional Quarterly, said her organization s proposals include students learning to examine different types of images and videos coming from different forms of media.
The coronavirus pandemic has put a heavy burden on education and teachers in particular.
One local teacher saw the pandemic as an opportunity to utilize her time at home by continuing her education and moving up the ladder in her career.
Lori Ann Jones, a special education teacher at Pueblo County High School, used the stimulus check she received from the CARES Act to return to school and get her second master s degree in order to move up the pay scale at Pueblo County School District 70. As a single mom, I m always looking for ways to support my daughter and myself, Jones said. Having an additional master s degree would bump up my salary level at the school district.