Tag: Aurora Public Schools
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Aurora teacher named Colorado Teacher of the Year
Aurora Public Schools music teacher Jimmy Lee Day II was named Colorado’s 2023 Teacher of the Year in a surprise ceremony Friday. Day, the band director and instrumental teacher at East Middle School, has over 13 years of experience as an educator and has taught at East Middle School since 2017, according to the Colorado…
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Aurora Public Schools, union reach agreement on pay raises for teachers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Teachers in Aurora Public Schools would receive a substantial pay increase when the school year begins under a tentative agreement between the district and the union. The proposed raise would “likely end up as one of the highest in the Denver metro area,” Superintendent Rico…
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Hundreds gather to protest possible closure of Sable Elementary School
Aurora native Jackie Pasillas dreamt of returning to Aurora Public Schools as an educator ever since she chose the path of becoming a teacher. In 2019, Pasillas was overjoyed when she learned she was being hired as a third grade teacher as Sable Elementary School, where she used to learn, play and built her foundation…
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Deputy secretary of education visits Aurora
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten concluded her trip to Colorado by visiting two schools in Aurora on Wednesday. Seven Clyde Miller P-8 students told Marten about the challenges they have faced during the pandemic and how programs implemented with emergency relief funds have helped them. The district received $77 million in emergency funds,…
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Aurora high school students spur change to schedule, dress code
Several changes are coming to Aurora Central High School next year and it wouldn’t have been possible without input from two students. Next fall, Mehran Ahmed will take over as principal at Central. But before the next school year begins, he wanted to give teachers and students an opportunity to say what they’d like to…
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Teens charged as adults in shooting that injured 3 outside of Hinkley High School
Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against three teenagers accused of shooting three students outside of Aurora’s Hinkley High School earlier this month. Larry Jefferson, Dalen Brewer and Diego Flores, all 16 years old, were charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and possession of a weapon on school…
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Aurora Public Schools students will not be allowed to leave for lunch starting Monday
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Aurora Public Schools students will no longer be allowed to leave for lunch Superintendent Rico Munn announced on Saturday. The new policy will begin on Monday and will run through Christmas break when district officials will reevaluate the policy, according to a 9News report. Munn made the announcement during a public prayer vigil hosted by the…
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Aurora police say Hinkley High School shooting had gang ties
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Aurora police believe a shooting in the Hinkley High School parking lot on Friday had ties to a local gang. “There was a gang nexus to the Hinkley shooting,” Matt Longshore, a spokesman for the Aurora Police Department, said in an email Tuesday. Police declined to identify the gang connected to the shooting that left…
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Classroom monitor at Aurora elementary school arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of children
A man working as a classroom monitor in Aurora was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual exploitation of children, the Aurora Police Department announced. Police said Wednesday 18-year-old Enrique de Jesus Carrillo-Rivera was charged with internet luring of a child and internet sexual exploitation of a child. He is being held in the Aurora City…
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Denver nonprofit donates $10 million to Aurora Public Schools for sports complex
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver nonprofit Children’s Opportunity Foundation has donated $10 million to Aurora Public Schools and the Aurora Public Schools Foundation for the construction of a state-of-the-art sports complex. The funds were specifically donated under the…