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50 years later: Honoring Los Seis de Boulder
BOULDER, Colo. — In May 1974, students at the University of Colorado Boulder were fighting for fair treatment and more funding for Chicano and Mexican-American students on campus. The group occupied Temporary Building 1, or TB1, one of the oldest buildings on campus. As the occupation continued into its...
Fraser Valley Elementary School hosts wax museum (with photos)
On May 9, the third grade classes at Fraser Valley Elementary hosted a “wax museum” as part of the classes’ biography book study. The one-hour-long event featured students dressed up as characters they studied and presented speeches as the character. Third grade teacher at Fraser Valley Elementary, Sandra Cormican, sent in these photos to Sky-Hi News.
BVSD school board hears plan to give 4% raises, cut $5 million
The Boulder Valley School District plans to cut $5 million from its budget, including eliminating teaching and central office positions, to afford to give all employees a 4% cost-of-living salary increase next school year. The school board heard an update on the budget at Tuesday’s meeting and is set to...
CU’s Hamas scholarships | CALDARA
You heard me. Confiscating money from people who never went to college, as well as those who foolishly paid off their own college loans, to give the booty to those who knowingly agreed to pay back their loans isn’t enough. Why? Well, duh — it doesn’t memorialize acts of...
BEYOND LOCAL: AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
The following article, written by Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder originally appeared on The Conversation and is published here with permission:. A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have any experience with New York City public schools? The parent received a seemingly helpful answer that laid out some characteristics of a specific school, beginning with the context that “I have a child who is also 2e,” meaning twice exceptional.
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