katy anthes
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Denver Public Schools improves graduation rate in 2022 while dropout rate bumps up
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Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver Public Schools made small but symbolically significant gains with the school district increasing its four-year graduation rate by 2.5% last year. But that news was tempered with the dropout rate eking up 1.2%. The dropout rate last year in Denver was still better than 2019, which saw 4.5% of…
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Aurora teacher named Colorado Teacher of the Year
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Aurora Public Schools music teacher Jimmy Lee Day II was named Colorado’s 2023 Teacher of the Year in a surprise ceremony Friday. Day, the band director and instrumental teacher at East Middle School, has over 13 years of experience as an educator and has taught at East Middle School since 2017, according to the Colorado…
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Colorado Springs educator named state teacher of the year
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Christina Gillette Randle, a first-grade teacher at Soaring Eagles Elementary in Colorado Springs, was named the state’s top teacher in a surprise at an assembly at the school Friday. This marks the second year in a row an El Paso County teacher has won the award. Last year’s winner was Sean Wybrant, a career and…
