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nholland@post-journal.com Pictured are Onyahsa campers from last summer safely enjoying their swimming time on Chautauqua Lake. Camp Onyahsa is one of the local options for kids to savor their summer vacation. Submitted Photos As the weather warms up, local summer camps and organizations are preparing for the return of kids, albeit with reduced numbers due to COVID-19. Camp Onyahsa is ready to return to some level of normalcy this summer. Last year, the camp was forced to cancel its overnight activities, which Director Jon O’Brian believes was the right call by Gov. Andrew Cuomo given the ...

nholland@post-journal.com Pictured are Onyahsa campers from last summer safely enjoying their swimming time on Chautauqua Lake. Camp Onyahsa is one of the local options for kids to savor their summer vacation. Submitted photos As the weather warms up, local summer camps and organizations are preparing for the return of kids, albeit with reduced numbers due to COVID-19. Camp Onyahsa is ready to return to some level of normalcy this summer. Last year, the camp was forced to cancel its overnight activities, which Director Jon O’Brian believes was the right call by Gov. Andrew Cuomo given the...

This story has been updated to reflect the portion of students who will remain in distance learning in Elk Grove Unified. California school officials scratching their heads over how to roll out standardized tests this spring could soon have another option. On Tuesday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to seek a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education that would allow California school districts to use locally selected tests rather than the Smarter Balanced statewide assessments, which are required by state and federal education law. “It has become clear that the persisten...

What politics is supposed to be It is very clear that something needs to be done to improve our education system – and The Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress program seems to be a well-thought-out solution. (“Let’s Help Colorado’s children catch up” March 12). In a time when we are so divided, this reminds me of what politics is supposed to be. Leaders with different backgrounds and beliefs, coming together to solve a common goal. Sens. Bob Gardner and Rhonda Fields might sit on opposite sides of the aisle, but their ability to work together for the betterment of our kids spe...

How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse Copy Link Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.  (Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report) April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them. Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Bl...