When students can bring loaded weapons into the building, and nothing is done, it’s time to leave.
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Posted inPolitics and Government
Colorado could get a new office of school safety to coordinate grant funding, training for tragedies
Rural districts say it’s a step in the right direction but grant funding is fleeting
Posted inCrime and Courts, Education, Equity, News
A caring high school principal or a criminal? A situation in Salida may have national implications.
When Salida High School Principal Talmage Trujillo encountered a student in crisis earlier this year, he followed his playbook. Trujillo went off looking for the kid for a one-on-one conversation. But Salida police were looking for the teenager too, fearful he had a gun and unsure of his intentions and whereabouts after he threatened to […]
Posted inEducation, News
Denver schools increase safety officers, seek authority to ticket students
After removing police officers from its schools over the past year, Denver Public Schools has increased its own armed patrol unit and is in talks with the city about allowing those officers to issue tickets to students for violations like marijuana possession and fighting. While the district believes the arrangement furthers its goal of reducing […]
Posted inEducation, News, Politics and Government
Active shooter drills are part of school life. Can they be done better?
By Caitlyn Kim, CPR News The Lockdown Drill Generation. That’s what 17-year-old Ellie Perlmutter said she’s part of. No, it has nothing to do with the pandemic. It’s the generation of students that have had to participate in active shooter drills at school. Approximately 95% of schools practice what to do in case a shooter […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, Education, News
He survived the Columbine massacre. Now Frank DeAngelis is applying the coping lessons he learned to coronavirus.
Two days after two students killed 12 classmates and one teacher inside Columbine High School, Frank DeAngelis was on the verge of empty. He hadn’t eaten in two days. He hadn’t slept. He didn’t think he had anything left to offer his students. But a counselor prodded the then-principal to follow him to an auditorium […]
Posted inColoradans, Education, News
Boulder Valley School District may scrap its school resource officer program. What replaces it is a question mark.
Boulder Valley School District may remove school resource officers from its buildings and redesign its relationship with local police, pending a decision by the Board of Education on Tuesday. The consideration of a different kind of police presence in Boulder Valley schools falls amid a national conversation on what role law enforcement should play in […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
Drew Litton: The parent trap, Colorado style
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inCrime and Courts, News
STEM School Highlands Ranch shooter sentenced to life in prison after emotional, day-long hearing
Betrayal. Lasting fear. Anger. A community forever shattered. Victims of last year’s deadly shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, including students who barely escaped death, spoke of still-raw wounds as 17-year-old Alec McKinney, one of the two shooters responsible for the attack, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 […]
