jefferson county public schools
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Dawn Odean tapped to lead Colorado’s universal preschool program
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Dawn Odean of Jefferson County Public Schools has been appointed to lead Colorado’s new universal preschool program rolling out next year, the state announced Friday. Odean will serve as director of the universal preschool program beginning on Aug. 15, responsible for the implementation and coordination of the program under the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.…
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Jefferson County school support staff to get pay raises
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Support staff at Jefferson County Public Schools will soon be hired at a higher wage under a contract ratified Tuesday by the school board. Paraeducators, custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, food services workers and other support staff will be hired at $18 per hour, a 44% increase from the existing wage. The increase will take effect…
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All politics is local — and that goes for local school districts, too
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Poor Jason Glass. The Jefferson County Schools sooper, just hired a few months ago, seems to have stumbled into a sticky situation in the wake of the recent violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a well-intentioned email to parents the other day, Glass offered assurances the district, “will work to ensure that we meet…
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Longtime JeffCo schools sooper back on the job — in Boulder
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Cindy Stevenson is no tenderfoot when it comes to controversy. The prominent, veteran schools administrator, who was chief exec of Jefferson County Public Schools – one of the state’s largest districts – for a dozen years, resigned that post in 2014 after a new school board came to power with a whole new, reformist agenda.…
