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Aspen Elementary School. Approving later start times for older students and the elimination of early-release Wednesdays, the Aspen School District Board of Education gave a unanimous thumbs up to changes to the 2021-22 academic calendar at Tuesday night’s meeting. The calendar vote was postponed several times to give district administrators planning the calendar more time to seek community feedback on the proposed changes, which come with an extensive list of pros and cons for students, families, teachers and other stakeholders. “We think we’ve addressed that through really hard listen...

Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times Aspen School District administrators have spent the last two months collecting community feedback on a proposed school calendar that eliminates Wednesday early-release days and maintains a split schedule in which elementary school students start earlier than middle and high school students. Middle and high school students would start at 8:45 a.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. according to the latest version of the proposed calendar ; elementary school students would start at 8 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. More than 650 survey and feedback form responses provided a mixed bag of...

Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times There’s no shortage of community input when it comes to the 2021-22 Aspen School District calendar: a recent community feedback survey posted on the district website has garnered hundreds of responses, according to district Superintendent David Baugh. That feedback has led to some changes to the proposed 2021-22 academic calendar, Baugh said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. The revisions primarily impact day-to-day scheduling for students, according to Baugh’s presentation. A new, split schedule moves the elementary school hours earlier i...

An Aspen Elementary School student is believed to have the UK variant of the coronavirus, the first of its type at the district.

Citing fallout from the pandemic, a resolution unanimously passed by the Aspen School District Board of Education on Tuesday supports canceling state spring assessment tests. “Whereas, the mental health of students and staff has been seriously and negatively impacted by stress and concerns related to the pandemic and would be unnecessarily exacerbated by mandatory … state assessments this spring, particularly in light of the academic difficulties teachers and students are already facing due to the pandemic,” said part of the resolution. Aspen joins Denver, Boulder and other Colorado sch...