debbie kelley
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Colorado’s student enrollment plunged during the pandemic — especially among kindergarten and younger grades — stoking fears
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Fifteen hundred dollars a month was a small price for Candida Ring to pay to escape the virtual schooling the pandemic had her family stuck in, due to her daughter’s medical fragility. “It was not set up for children of that age,” Ring said of her school district’s online program for younger students. “They wanted them…
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Betsy DeVos protest filled with vulgar signs, foul language in Colorado Springs, attendees say
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Children and adults holding vulgar signs, yelling obscenities and making nasty gestures Wednesday outside a private pro-school choice luncheon featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos raised the ire of some who witnessed the demonstration. “I thought it was unbelievable,” said professor Josh Dunn, chairman of the political science department and director of the Center…
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What if they held an election and (almost) nobody ran for office?
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…That’s more or less what’s happening in nine – count ’em, nine – of the Pikes Peak region’s 17 school districts in this fall’s balloting, reports The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Debbie Kelley. A host of school board seats are uncontested in those districts; in some cases, there aren’t even enough candidates to fill board vacancies.…
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Colorado teacher shortage is ‘creeping toward a crisis’
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The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Debbie Kelley offers further insights into the state’s shortage of schoolteachers, and she looks at the issues from a frontline perspective. After noting legislation recently signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper to study the shortage and ultimately make recommendations for legislation, Kelley talks to educators in the trenches. They’re the folks who…
