Colorado Springs D 11
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Colorado High School Activities Association reaches settlement with D-49, other school districts in trans athletics lawsuit
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Months after adopting new policies restricting students to athletic participation based on their biological sex and filing a federal lawsuit, School District 49 and other Colorado school districts have reached a settlement with the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) over their right to enforce them. All parties have signed an agreement allowing the school…
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D-11 to terminate teacher’s employment following critical social media posts
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Colorado Springs D-11 is set to dismiss one of its elementary schoolteachers who has publicly criticized district leadership in recent months. During their regular meeting, the D-11 Board of Education discussed both the school district’s “employee dismissal process” and the “employment status of Angelica Givler-Viers, McAuliffe Elementary School Teacher” on Wednesday night. Superintendent Michael Gaal…
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Colorado Springs D-11 board member running for state House seat
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A Colorado Springs District 11 board member has thrown their hat into the ring for a seat in the state House of Representatives. A candidate affidavit and committee registration form for Jill Haffley, vice president of D-11’s Board of Education, in House District 16 were filed with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Nov.…
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Colorado schools growing the next generation of teachers in their classrooms
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At Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, first-year family and consumer sciences culinary teacher Taiyah Mooney feels right at home. In addition to graduating from the very school not long ago in 2022, she returned to her stomping grounds uniquely equipped to begin her career as an educator. Mooney marks the first D-11 teacher to…
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D-11 and teachers union prepping for one-day strike
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Years of building tension between Colorado Springs School District 11’s leadership and its teachers’ union may reach its climax this week through a one-day strike set to take place throughout the district and its schools. On Oct. 8, teachers, families and community supporters will gather outside of D-11 schools in the morning before speaking with…
