Fall colors ended on Oct. 11 this year; the next day, after the snow and freezing temperatures, most of the leaves turned brown. Events were submitted online so double check dates/times with contact info provided. Events submitted by the 17th of the month are considered for printing as space allows.
Denver Public Schools approached SUN this fall to determine the amenability to a conversation about shifting from proximity buckets to proximity zones for the elementary school choice process for the Stapleton enrollment zone.
If you have a child in one of these DPS schools, the first score you looked for was likely your own child or grandchild’s school. Lacking any of those you probably looked first at the closest school. Humans are wired to instinctively care for their own family and “tribe”—those closest to us.
This past June, the DPS school board passed a resolution eliminating the use of handcuffs in elementary schools; the only exception is “if the student is openly displaying a deadly weapon,” according to the resolution. This piece addresses alternatives to handcuff use, including de-escalation training DPS staff undergo.
Denver Ballot Guide. State Ballot Guide. Why are we voting on these things? What about other ballot measures?
Referendums on Establishing City Department of Transportation; Arts and Venues Facilities; Fire Department Ranks and Grades and Elected Official Residency.
Passage of DD would legalize sports gambling in Colorado, impose taxes on the casinos that offer such betting, and devote the tax revenues to water projects.
Proposition CC proposes amending the Colorado statutes to allow the state government to keep all of the money it collects every year beginning in the 2019-20 state budget year.
Whether one selects a technical or vocational school, a two-year or a four-year degree program, an in-state or out-of-state undergraduate experience, the decision on where to apply to college is not one-sided. Writing an outstanding personal essay can be key to the admissions process.
DPS Board At-Large Candidates Natela Alexandrovna Manuntseva, Tay Anderson and Alexis Menocal Harrigan talk about their policy priorities.
Mike Johnston, former school principal and state senator, says he spent a lot of time in the past year thinking about what’s broken in our democracy—and what we can fix.
Annette Haugh was just seventeen when two bad guys with guns changed her life forever. “I separated myself into two parts that day—Columbine survivor and Annette—and I’ve spent the last twenty years trying to put those parts back together.”
