We begin our assessment of candidates for Grand Junction City Council with a contest that offers perhaps the least daylight between opponents on their positions.
Going down a list of yes or no prompts regarding issues before the council (look for it in Sundayâs edition) thereâs a lot of overlap in the answers given by current Councilmember Kraig Andrews and first-time candidate Randall Reitz who are running for an at-large seat on the council.
But they bring vastly different personalities and approaches to the table. Even though Andrews is the incumbent with the advantage of council experience, Reitz seems more seasoned and more self-assured. Itâs obvious heâs studied the issues, understands them and has opinions that he can articulate quickly and clearly.
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A syringe of COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
For Rhiannon Wenning’s high school students, history lessons during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are sometimes all too real.
“Last semester, when I was teaching about the black plague, students were able to make many comparisons and parallels between the black plague and what’s going on right now with COVID,” Wenning said. “Everything that we’re teaching they’re able to see and they’re experiencing themselves.”
But while teachers continue to do what they do educate our state’s kids many of them say they’re also putting themselves at serious risk of getting sick. Many school districts around Colorado either have or soon will transition back to full or part-time in-person learning.
School District 51 has made changes to its agenda for tonightâs Board of Education meeting.
The change centers around the topic of last nightâs executive session regarding a superintendent succession plan. In a Monday night Facebook post, District 51 reiterated that those meetings are not public.
In a Tuesday email to media, spokesperson Emily Shockley clarified that superintendent Diana Sirko is not retiring in the immediate future.
âThat will happen next summer at the very earliest, and the formal search process is not starting now,â Shockley wrote. âThis is simply a discussion happening well in advance of any superintendent search to ensure they are prepared for the future and hang on to valuable people in D51 who may be otherwise be recruited away this year, as there are several superintendent searches going on in Colorado right now.â
District 51 is Discussing Changing School Boundaries
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Mesa County Valley School District 51 is currently discussing changing school boundaries for a total of eight different schools in the county. The changes could affect five elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools in the Grand Valley.
The boundary changes continue to be discussed, according to Mesa County Valley School District 51 s Facebook, which states that the board will most likely vote on school boundary changes on February 16th.
Here are the proposed school boundary changes that District 51 is currently discussing, which will affect Appleton, Broadway, Pomona, Tope, and Wingate elementary schools, Fruita 8-9, and Fruita Monument, and Grand Junction high schools.