Colorado schools will be lucky if funding remains essentially flat next year, even as they make dramatic changes to serve their students during statewide school closures…
Category: Education/Health
LETTER: COVID Crisis Reveals a Broken Health Care System
The damage of the COVID-19 pandemic to the American medical and economic health is a glaring example of the fragmented, chaotic nature of our free enterprise medical system…
Educator Survey Shows Distance Learning, Student Well-Being Top List of Concerns
CEA poll finds educator priorities include student needs beyond learning during COVID-19 pandemic…
Colorado Emergency Child Care Expands to Include Grocery, Construction Workers
Originally, only health workers, first responders, and staff at residential care facilities were eligible for emergency child care…
EDITORIAL: Decomposing Fractions
Children need to learn that some numbers are meaningless. Or downright dangerous…
Colorado Works to Increase ICU Beds Statewide
The SEOC is partnering with local public health organizations, health care facilities, the Colorado Hospital Association, and federal and state agencies to prepare for a potential medical surge…
‘Help Colorado Now’ Seeking COVID Grant Applications Up to $25,000
Help Colorado Now has raised $7.7 million dollars from nearly 4,000 individuals, foundations and companies since the fund launched…
VIDEO: Report from the Front Lines… JAMA Interview with Dr. Michelle Gong
When the interview was recorded on March 23, New York City was experiencing nearly 11,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases — with numbers rising daily…
ESSAY: Don’t Let Anxiety Get the Best of You
Be physically active, preferably outside, where the sounds and sights of the natural world, and the sunshine, can help put the drama of our human world in a healthier perspective…
A Guide to COVID-19 Funding and Resources
The Foundation has pledged $700,000 to the Colorado COVID Relief Fund, joining Gov. Polis and funders across the state…
First Positive COVID-19 Case Reported in La Plata County
“San Juan Basin Public Health has been preparing for weeks, as a case in our jurisdiction has been expected…”
EDITORIAL: Polis Orders Businesses, Agencies to Reduce ‘In-Person’ Workforce
“If we don’t abide by these simple, common sense protocols, you will be jeopardizing lives,” he claimed…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Five
“We were about $400 million dollars behind where we should have been on the unemployment insurance trust fund…”
EDITORIAL: The Quest for a Test
Denver’s drive-through experiment was shut down after less than a week of sporadic testing, with no announced date for re-opening…
La Plata County Opens Temporary ‘Drive-Through’ COVID Testing Site
San Juan Basin Public Health (SJBPH) is opening a temporary drive-through testing site today Friday, March 20, and tomorrow, Saturday, March 21…
LETTER: K-12 School Funding History
What I presented at the board meeting was an historical representation of the change in per-pupil funding from the state of Colorado…
Colorado Will Cancel This Year’s Standardized Testing
“Many teachers are feeling anxiety around preparing their students for these tests, as well as the implications of the test scores on their own evaluations…”
POLIS: Colorado Schools Unlikely to Reopen This School Year
At the same time, the state public health and human services departments have asked child care facilities to stay open…
DOJ Asked to Addressed ‘Price Gouging’ During Pandemic
“According to research by the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), 24% of Americans have witnessed price gouging on public health products like hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies, and non-perishable foods…”