school safety

Aggression at fiery El Paso County school board meetings prompts safety concerns

May 2, 2023

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Nick Sullivan

Student board representative Abigail Troup was shaking. The bitter atmosphere at an April 13 School District 49 board meeting went from bad to worse during public comment, the Pikes Peak Early College senior said. Community members lobbed personal attacks at each other and at school leaders. One woman was escorted out of the building for…
Bill offering free bleed control kits for schools passes Colorado legislature

Apr 24, 2023

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Hannah Metzger

Colorado lawmakers approved a bill to offer schools free bleed control kits on Monday, advancing the proposal to Gov. Jared Polis for final consideration. If signed into law, House Bill 1213 would provide free bleed control kits and training materials to K-12 schools that request them. Bleed control kits are first aid kits designed to control serious…
East High School students urge Denver City Council to act on gun violence issue

Feb 22, 2023

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Alex Edwards

After a shooting injured one student outside of East High School last week, a teacher and two students addressed the Denver City Council Tuesday, sharing their fears of gun violence in and around schools and asking for school resource officers to be re-instated in Denver Public Schools. They spoke during the public hearing portion of…
Gov. Polis pledges to improve school safety at state summit

Oct 20, 2022

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Hannah Metzger

Gov. Jared Polis vowed to improve students’ mental and physical safety in classrooms while speaking at Colorado’s annual School Safety Summit on Thursday. Colorado is no stranger to school tragedies, from the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, to the STEM School Highlands Ranch mass shooting in 2019, to the string of shootings outside of Aurora…
Funding for civil rights agency now in the 2018-19 Colo. budget

Apr 12, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

UPDATE: The Senate re-adopted the 2018-19 state budget Thursday on a 31-4 vote after about $30 million in spending was added to the budget. The House also re-passed the bill Thursday on a 47-16 vote. House Bill 1322 now heads to the governor for signing; he has 10 days after it is received by his office…
Out West Roundup: Arizona governor suspends Uber from autonomous testing

Mar 30, 2018

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Associated Press

Arizona Arizona governor suspends Uber from autonomous testing PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey suspended Uber’s self-driving vehicle testing privileges last week in the wake of a pedestrian fatality in a Phoenix suburb. Ducey said in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised concerns about the San Francisco-based company’s…
House gives preliminary approval to 2018-19 budget

Mar 29, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

DENVER – Based on the packet of amendments to the Long Appropriations Bill, Colorado lawmakers are seeing dollar signs for the first time in years. On Wednesday night the Colorado House, on a voice vote, put its stamp on the 2018-19 budget – with a lot more changes than in years past. As Wednesday began,…
School guns bill could add minimum training benchmark

Jan 30, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Senate Republican leader Chris Holbert is taking a second look at his Senate Bill 5 to create training for teachers who want to carry guns in school. “I’m going to take a day or two to talk to the districts, to talk to the sheriffs,” Holbert said Monday morning. He is considering an amendment to establish…
Joint committee hears testimony on school safety in wake of Davis reports

Jan 22, 2016

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Kelly Sloan

In the wake of a scathing report released earlier this week outlining the safety-system failures highlighted by the tragic school-shooting death of 17-year-old Claire Davis in 2013 at Arapahoe High School, a special joint legislative committee convened Friday to review the report and two others on the incident and to hear testimony on how to…