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Aspen School District is eyeing policy and procedure policies to address a whirlwind of change, leadership turnover and culture challenges.
Aspen School District is starting to get a firmer sense — though not an entirely complete one just yet — of just how many staff plan to return next year and how many vacancies it will need to fill.
Facing a dire need for classroom coverage and an insufficient number of substitutes, many Aspen School District employees are taking on additional work to fill the gaps and ensure that schools stay open.
As Pitkin County goes, so goes the school system — with COVID-19 case numbers, anyway. A recent surge in local cases in Pitkin County also made for a relatively proportional bump in case counts among school-aged children and an uptick in teacher and staff cases, according to Pitkin County Public Health’s COVID-19 data dashboards.
Days before the academic year begins, Aspen School District is facing a “crisis” of limited staffing in some of its departments that could directly impact students’ experiences when they arrive on campus for the first day of school Wednesday.