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Grand Junction High School team finalists in national ‘green’ challenge

A team of Grand Junction High School students is among 21 finalists nationwide for $50,000 in scholarships and prizes through the Siemens Foundation We Can Change the World Challenge. More than 1,600 high schools across the U.S. participated in the challenge, which tasked students with coming up with ways to address energy, biodiversity, land management, water conservation, air and climate issues. Grand Junction High’s Team Big Foot Carbonators became the sole qualifiers from ...

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Glade Park Community School wraps first year as charter

It was a learning year at Glade Park Community School. While the school’s 21 kindergarten through fifth-grade students learned Spanish, knitting and music alongside the basics in 2011-12, parents and community members on the school’s six-member board learned how to hire staff, manage payrolls, write school codes and policies and match curriculum to state and local education standards. After a group of Glade Park moms worked for two years to persuade School District 51 to open ...

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Scenic supporters celebrate school being open another year

Today could have been the last day of school forever for Scenic Elementary. Closing the school or one of a handful of other School District 51 buildings was first discussed nearly a year ago as a potential way to save $1.2 million. District 51 School Board members nixed the idea at a board meeting March 27, a decision school employees, students and their parents celebrated Wednesday afternoon with an outdoor ice cream social at Scenic. “We started this year not knowing if this would ...

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Lunch prices going up for district schools

School District 51 elementary school lunches will cost $2.35 beginning this fall, up from the current price of $2. The Federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires schools that receive federal reimbursements for free or reduced-price lunches to charge students an average price for lunches that is high enough to, along with free and reduced lunch reimbursements, compensate for the cost of serving meals to all students. The federal government reimburses District 51 Nutrition ...

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Parents unhappy with District 51 budget proposals

As a member of local parent group Save Our Students, Sarah Shrader wanted to keep as many District 51 budget cuts as possible from affecting her children. In April, the group suggested the district charge a fee for busing, cut administration, increase sports fees and lengthen walking distances for middle and high school students. Although District 51 School Board members are considering all of those ideas except the bus fee, Shrader is not happy with other items in the $5.76 million budget ...

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New law makes CMU ‘selective’ in admissions

Hours after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill Monday in Grand Junction that moves Colorado Mesa University from a “moderately selective” to a “selective” institution, the university’s board of trustees set new parameters for CMU admissions standards. Beginning in summer 2013, Colorado Mesa will admit students with an admissions index score of 92 or higher, up from the current standard of 85. An admissions index score is a number based on an ...

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Trustees weigh gym expansion, tuition increase

More construction may be on the way for Colorado Mesa University. The university’s board of trustees discussed the possibility at a board meeting Monday of expanding the Hamilton Recreation Center, the gym facility inside the university’s Maverick Center. The center opened in January 2010 and features two stories of workout equipment, exercise rooms and a running track. The potential $5 million expansion plan proposes adding rooms for aerobics, yoga and spinning classes, ...

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Family hopes to sell car, give school part of profit

For sale: A 2008 Nissan Quest with 58,000 miles, a roomy interior and a chance to benefit a local school. Grand Junction couple Chuck and Leah Pabst posted an advertisement for their minivan this week on Craigslist.org. The Pabsts plan to donate $500 of the $13,500 they’re asking for the Nissan to a local public school of the buyer’s choice. The pair has three children, ages 9, 6 and 4, who attend Caprock Academy and River Canyon School. Leah Pabst said she has friends all ...

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Home-school graduates celebrate diverse interests

Members of the Mesa Valley Vision Home and Community Program class of 2012 studied Greek, Chinese, French and Spanish, completed Advanced Placement classes without the aid of a classroom teacher, worked everywhere from a cattle ranch to a nursing home and earned a total of three certified nursing assistant certificates. Wednesday afternoon, 10 of the 14 members of Vision’s fourth graduating class marked another achievement when they participated in a graduation ceremony at Roper ...

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Online school graduates first class

The year Sarah Cautrell’s brother died, she lost interest in traditional school. She made it through her junior year after his passing but dropped out of Central High School during her senior year. She tried R-5 High School for three semesters, but it wasn’t the right fit. With two-and-a-half credits between Cautrell and her high school diploma, she considered taking the General Education Diploma test. But part of her still wanted a high school diploma. That’s when ...

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