The Mountain Mail | March 17, 2017 Cotopaxi School received statewide recognition March 3 in Denver as one of 46 2017 Healthy School Champions and also won the $500 Excellence Award for the school’s health efforts. Read more
Akron News Reporter | March 1, 2017 Both the Akron and Otis school districts were recently announced as 2017 Healthy School Champions, each winning a Promising and Excellence School Award for their school health efforts. Read more
Saguache Today | March 1, 2017 Mountain Valley School (MVS)announced it was one of 46 schools named as a 2017 Healthy School Champion last week. This Friday, March 3, MVS will receive $500 Excellence Award for school health efforts. Read more
By Teresa Ristow, Steamboat Pilot & Today | February 28, 2017 Staff at Routt County’s rural Hayden and South Routt school districts have ramped up efforts to improve student health — leading to recognition and prize money from a nonprofit that works with the Colorado Department of Education. Read more
By Alexandra Pannoni, U.S. News & World Report | February 27, 2017 The number of students taking at least one Advanced Placement exam has nearly doubled in 10 years, to 1.1 million members of the class of 2016, according to a new report from The College Board. Read more
Staff Report, Journal-Advocate | February 25, 2017 Buffalo RE-4J recently announced that it is a 2017 Healthy School Champion and has won the $1,000 Bronze Award for its school health efforts. Read more
By Kate Schimel and Leah Todd, The Taos News | November 9, 2016
If you ask Colby Simpson, one of 35 seniors at Paonia High School, how many advanced placement (AP) classes he’s taken, he has to shuffle through a long mental list. He definitely took AP biology, and is taking AP calculus and physics, but did he take AP U.S. history? He thinks for a moment to recall. That’s not a problem his oldest brother, Patrick, now 31, experienced: There were no AP classes at Paonia High when the elder Simpson sibling attended 15 years ago. With only 16 teachers, training faculty to teach nationally certified AP classes, and recruiting enough students to make them worthwhile, seemed unattainable for the tiny Colorado school. That changed in 2011, when the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI), an education advocacy and research organization, launched the Colorado Legacy Schools project. The program funded innovative ways to increase the number and diversity of students taking AP classes. READ MORE >
