Education

Durango School District offers online gifted-and-talented resources

Links are included to provide parents, students and educators with resources for identification and enrichment opportunities, advanced learning plans and…

Durango School District to close for winter break

Monday, Jan. 8, will be an early-release day.

Ignacio schools to close for winter break

Florida Mesa PTO to meet

Columbine Christian students to take stage

Sandy Hook’s legacy: More security in elementary schools

Campus monitor Hector Garcia greets students as they get off the bus at the start of a school day at…

Scholarship for Muslim women honors pioneering scientist

Tasneem Essader studies at a residence hall at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Adawia Alousi…

Durango student completes Cornell fellowship

Students reported on work completed during the summer program and gave presentations at a showcase Nov. 29 in front of…

Florida Mesa’s School Accountability Committee to meet

Animas High School board to meet Wednesday

The meeting is free and open to all. For more information, visit www.animashighschool.com/board-meetings.

Durango High School advance-placement students earn Christmas bonuses

program pays kids for acing Advanced Placement tests

Animas High School to present ‘the hero’s journey’

Students studied mythologist Joseph Campbell and his theory of the archetypal hero’s journey, and they have applied knowledge to the…

Ignacio school District to hold communitywide meeting

Parents and community members are encouraged to attend and discuss the Unified Improvement Plan. A board meeting will be held…

A teacher’s perspective: How to build an alliance with your child’s teacher

Associated Press file Being human, teachers vary in inclination and ability. The demands on their energy exceed the supply, so…

Animas High School students to present homelessness project

Students chose to study the homelessness issue in Durango to change perspectives, raise awareness and promote compassion about the issue.…

Animas High School physics students to hold competition

Eight teams of students each designed and handcrafted Rube Goldberg machines and will participate in a friendly competition. Prizes will…

Durango schools offer music performances

6:30 p.m., Dec. 12: The Riverview Elementary School choir and “Be Frank” Orchestra will perform a winter concert at the…

Study abroad program opens application session

Accepted students will attend regular high school classes in a chosen country. Host families are carefully screened and will provide…

Colorado school board votes to end voucher program

The Douglas County school board voted on a resolution to end the voucher program and years of litigation that reached…

Durango School District 9-R Board of Education to meet

The Juniper School will be discussed.

U.S. charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation

National enrollment data shows that charters are vastly over-represented among schools where minorities study in the most extreme racial isolation.…

Durango Adult Education Center to host winter graduation

The commencement speaker will be 2016 GED graduate Luna St. Pierre. The event is free and open to all. For…

AHS ninth-graders to showcase identity projects

Students will showcase what they learned from their studies of the cycle of socialization and the book Mexican WhiteBoy by…

Escalante Middle School to hold creativity workshop

To register or for more information, call or email Sheila at 764-7550 or [email protected], or visit www.dicolorado.com/regions/southwest.