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Signing Day: Eaglecrest track star Zenobia Witt reveals commitment at ceremony
AURORA | Zenobia Witt wanted a little mystery about where she would continue her track & field career at the next level, but the choice was pretty clear. The Eaglecrest High School senior star — a six-time Class 5A state champion with big plans for her final prep chapter in the spring — used Wednesday morning’s Signing/Commitment Day celebration to reveal her future destination.
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Jefferson Academy boys soccer smacks Denver Christian in massive semifinal victory
LAKEWOOD — The last time Jefferson Academy boys soccer found itself in a Class 3A state semifinal, one year ago, the Jaguars left heartbroken when a round of penalty kicks failed to fall in their favor. They spent the entire year that followed putting in the work on the...
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In Denver, a 3-school effort to take advantage of the federal tax credit scholarship program
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Most of the efforts for public schools to get in on a new federal tax credit have been macro: Public education boosters are creating organizations to grant scholarships for tutoring or SAT prep across an entire school district, state, or region of the country. But a new effort in Denver is micro. Here, parents are launching an organization to grant scholarships at just three public schools: East High, Morey Middle, and McAuliffe International. “The general concept is as a parent, if I’m going to give a donation, I’d like to see it impact my neighborhood school,” said East High parent Greg Graeber. This type of experimentation and parental choice is allowed under the federal tax credit program, a major school choice expansion that’s projected to raise billions of dollars for private school tuition and other educational expenses. The program works like this: Taxpayers will receive a federal tax credit of up to $1,700 if they donate to a scholarship-granting organization. Those organizations then give