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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Lockheed Martin pledges support for Denver School of Science and Technology - The Denver Post

Lockheed Martin pledges support for Denver School of Science and Technology - The Denver Post


Lockheed Martin pledges support for Denver School of Science and Technology 205/19/2010DENVER—Lockheed Martin is pledging money and volunteer support for the Denver School of Science and Technology.
Douglas County votes to charge fees for school-bus rides 2105/19/2010 - Parents in Colorado's third-largest school district are being asked to pay if their kids want to ride the bus to school.
Bruce Randolph School caps turnaround with first graduating class 805/19/2010 - On Tuesday Bruce Randolph School - where 95.4 percent of students are poor enough to be eligible for federal meal benefits - graduated 73 students at Magness Arena. The turnaround school went from being the state's worst middle school to a grades 6-12 school that graduated 97 percent of its first class of seniors.
Bleak reading performance stats spur push to teach early05/19/2010 - More than half of Colorado students make it to fourth grade without learning to read well enough to absorb content, and that has vast implications for their entire academic careers, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.