M-CHS wins LEED green building certification

The Montezuma-Cortez School District announced this week that the new high school has been awarded LEED Gold certification, which was required by the Building Excellent Schools Today grant that...

DATE: Feb. 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Community colleges to get rid of out-of-state teachers

Associated Press The Colorado Community College System is warning several dozen online instructors that their jobs are at risk if they do not live in Colorado. Southwest Community College, with...

DATE: Jan. 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

The SAT pushes to reclaim supremacy

The SAT, once the nation’s dominant college admission exam, fell behind the ACT in recent years after its rival locked up huge swaths of the market through contracts to provide testing in public...

DATE: Dec. 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Robotics grant will fund summer internships at Adams State

Adams State University students will have an opportunity to develop artificial intelligence and social-emotional programming for robots through a three-year grant of more than $500,000 from the...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Dolores test scores fall below state average

First-year results of a new state assessment test for Dolores Schools have been released. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test measures student academics...

DATE: Dec. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Community Calendar

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DATE: Dec. 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Community Calendar

Superintendent calls reporter a ‘cancer,’ then apologizes

Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 Superintendent Alex Carter responded to a media request on Wednesday with an email to a Boulder lawyer in which he called a reporter a “cancer.” “I have a really horrible...

DATE: Dec. 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Technology is a friend, but keep an eye on it

Technology is being touted as a pathway to education for the future. It can facilitate incremental learning and allow for a curriculum tailored to the individual students’ needs. Technology can...

DATE: Dec. 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Why few colleges reported rapes in 2014

A new analysis of campus crime data has revealed that 91 percent of U.S. colleges had no reported cases of rape in 2014, according to the American Association of University Women. That should be...

DATE: Dec. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Re-1 eyes oil-gas taxes

Claiming that Kinder Morgan pays only its minimum share of local taxes, Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 Superintendent Alex Carter said he envisioned company executives laughing all the way to the bank....

DATE: Nov. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

FLC students to march for free tuition, wages

DENVER – On Thursday, students from more than 100 campuses, including Fort Lewis College, will join a national day of action demanding tuition-free public college, cancellation of all student debt,...

DATE: Nov. 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Science is stressful

DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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