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- Cyber-Bullying Topic Of School Safety Discussion
School bullies are taking their tactics online. A Colorado Springs school district reached out Thursday to educate parents on what their kids may be dealing with.
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- 12 Libraries Get Grants To Help Financial Literacy
A dozen U.S. libraries have won a total of more than $800,000 in grants to help patrons gain financial literacy, from keeping a budget to planning for retirement.
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- Woodland Park To Give Out Free Safe Drinking Water
The city of Woodland Park is giving out free safe drinking water Thursday infront of City Hall due to the boil water order. Water is being given out from 4 - 7 p.m.
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- Woodland Park School District Cancels School Over Water Concerns
Woodland Park School District officials have canceled school on Thursday due to health concerns after a water main break Wednesday.
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- Fewer Coloradans to Get Help With Child Care Costs
Denver and Adams counties will cut the number of families receiving aid through the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program amid less money to handle a surge in applications.
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- Vending Machine Snacks With Peanut Butter Pulled From D-11 Schools
District 11 in Colorado Springs has announced their cafeteria food is not affected by the peanut butter recall due to the recent Salmonella outbreak. But vending machine snacks containing peanut butter are being pulled as a precaution.
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- Colo. May Receive $415 Million in Education Funds
Congressman Jared Polis says Colorado is set to receive about $415 million for education spending under a federal proposal to help state's ailing economies.
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- D-20 Bans Peanut Butter Due To Recall
Due to cautions issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, Sodexo food services will suspend serving any peanut butter products at Academy School District 20 schools beginning Tuesday.
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- D-49 Superintendent on Voluntary Leave
11 News has learned that Falcon School District 49 Superintendent Grant Schmidt has gone on voluntary leave.
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- District 11 School Bus Involved In Crash
Colorado Springs firefighters say a car sliding on ice caused a crash involving a school bus at Collegiate Drive and Union. The road was so slippery, an ambulance responding to the crash slid into the car.
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- Schools Deny Hot Lunches To Students Owing Money
Dozens of students at Steamboat Springs schools are getting peanuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- or nothing -- for lunch this week after the district cut off those with unpaid balances on their school lunch accounts.
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- Centennial HS Evacuated Due To Fear of Gas Leak
Pueblo police confirm Centennial High School was evacuated Thursday morning due to fear of a gas leak. The kids are all back in school now.
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- D-11 Proposes Big Changes For District
The first meeting is tonight at Mitchell High School from 6:30 p.m.- 9 p.m.
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- Cheyenne Mtn. Students Likely Won't Get Charged In Heroin Probe
Police said Wednesday that five suspected drug dealers have been arrested in the probe.
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- Woodland Park School Employee Arrested For Embezzlement
Police believe the school district's supervisor of finance, 60-year-old Deanna Moore, may have helped herself to $582, 922.88 over a four-year span.
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- 15-Year-Old Arrested For Poking Classmates With Lancet
Colorado Springs police say a 15-year-old boy was arrested on Friday after he allegedly went around sticking classmates with a lancet.
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- Half Of Junior College Students Had Remedial Class
The annual report, issued Thursday by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, says more than a fifth of the students at state four-year colleges had to take remedial classes.
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- 44% of CO Schools Rate Excellent Or High
More than 44 percent of Colorado schools rated excellent or high in the latest School Accountability Reports, up slightly from the year before.
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- Threat Sends Schools Into Lockdown
School District 11 in Colorado Springs tells 11 News they had to lock down 2 schools Wednesday morning as a precautionary measure because there was a threat made.
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- Costs of College
Parents know it all too well… the cost of sending your children to college can be outrageous. Now, an independent report confirms that.
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- Arrest in School Threat
An arrest has been made, after threats to a local school.
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- New Report Questions Teaching Practices
How can students learn math, when the teacher doesn't know much more about the subject than the pupils? That's one of the questions raised by a new report by a children's advocacy group, the Education Trust.
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- Fewer Lead-Tainted Toys Recalled This Year
After spiking last year, recalls of toys or children's products because of lead paint or lead content are down sharply in 2008.
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- 60-Year-Old Woman Accused of Embezzling $500,000 From School
Half-a-million-dollars is embezzled from the Woodland Park School District, and the school's Supervisor of Finance may be the one who did it.
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- UPDATE: Students Treated After Taking ADHD Drug
Police and health officials keeping tight lipped on a drug scare at Cesar Chavez Academy in Colorado Springs.
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- Police Offer Halloween Safety Tips
The Colorado Spring Police Department is warning community members about safety on Halloween. - Kids' Eye Problems Often Emerge In Homework Battle
A study says as many as one of every 20 students have a common eye problem that isn't being caught by standard vision screenings administered by schools and pediatricians.
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- States, Schools Will Have To Improve Dropout Rates
One in four students quits high school, and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings wants to put pressure on schools to change that.
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- Local Kids And Teens Weigh In On Election
Local students have their say on what's happening in our country right now... with the candidates and the issues.
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- Report: Kids Less Likely To Graduate Than Parents
A new study says your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were. And it finds that most states aren't doing much to hold schools accountable.
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- Food Allergies Increasing In U.S. Kids
Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise.
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- Two D-11 Schools Returned to Normal Status
D-11 officials say two schools that were placed on lock down as a precaution while officers searched for a suspect in downtown Colorado Springs, are back to normal status. The suspect has been found.
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- Govt Wants Kids To Buckle Up On School Buses
The lap-and-shoulder belts will be required on all new buses purchased in three years.
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- Police Catch Alleged Car Thief, Schools Lift Limited Access
District 20 put Rampart High School, Mountain Ridge Middle School, Academy International Elementary, Academy Endeavor, High Plains Elementary, Frontier Elementary on limited access as a precaution Thursday.
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- Teachers Learn How To Help Kids From Military Families
Saying goodbye is never easy on a military family. There is the anxiety military couples feel when a loved one is faced with an assignment to the battlefield. In thousands of cases, kids are caught up too.
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- Elementary Students get Lesson in Civics
Attorney General John Suthers helps students at Trailblazer Elementary School celebrate Constitution Day.
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- CU System Enrollment Hits Record Of Nearly 54,000
The Colorado Springs campus enrolled a record 1,157 freshmen, a 14.2 percent increase over last year.
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- College Freshmen & Eating Disorders
College kids are in class, their pencils are sharpened and their books are wide open, but some of those students may end up gaining more than good grades.
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- Schools On Lockdown Modify Normal Releases
Schools in D38 and D20 modified their normal release procedures after a day-long modified lockdown Friday due to a manhunt for a kidnapping suspect.
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- Manhunt For Kidnapping Suspect Creates Security Threat For Schools
Several schools in D20 and D38 were on modified lockdown due to a search for a possible kidnapping suspect in the area.
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- Rampart High Senior Scores Rare Feat
Paul Holcomb says he didn't take any special preparation courses for the big exam.
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- 78 Percent Of Colorado Kids Fully Immunized
An estimated 78 percent of Colorado children under age 3 were considered fully immunized last year, according to the annual National Immunization Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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- 2009 Best Ranked Colleges And Universities
U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings list won't be published until Monday, but their website is already listing the top schools in America. Many Colorado schools made the cut.
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- Foot Leather Will Replace School Buses For Many Students Nationwide
Because of rising fuel costs, an increasing number of youngsters will find themselves hoofing to school this fall.
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- Big Brothers Big Sisters Week Launched
The push is on to recruit more volunteers to serve as "big brothers" and "big sisters", according to the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters Pikes Peak, April Speake.
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- Kids From Big Brothers Big Sisters Tour Peterson AFB
As part of their tour, the kids were allowed to sit in the cockpit, handle the throttles and gauges, learn about the roles of various crew members, and hear how they manage to drop the plane's big payloads, like troops and equipment.
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- School Safety Back In Session
Starting last week, Southern Colorado students have been heading back to the classroom and the Colorado Springs Police Department wants to remind drivers to again pay attention in school zones.
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- CU System's Research Grants Set Record
The University of Colorado system says preliminary figures show its three campuses received nearly $661 million in research funding in fiscal 2008.
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- Immigrant Kids Less Active Than American-Born Kids
The study -- said to be the biggest of its kind by far -- found almost 18 percent of foreign-born children with immigrant parents got no vigorous exercise on any days of the week. And 56 percent did not take part in organized sports
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- Springs Kids Hit The Books For New School Year
A new school year begins Monday for some District 49 students! Click on Full Story to also see start dates for Districts 20, 11, 60 and 70.
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