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Denver Public Schools board has given the given the green light for creation of the city’s first charter high school that will focus on business education, according to a story from the Denver Business Journal.
The board approved the charter application of Denver Venture School. Classes are scheduled to start next fall.
The […]

The University of Colorado’s Presidential Search Committee wants to know what Colorado Springs residents think CU’s next president should be like.
The committee will hold a meeting to solicit comment at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce office, 2 N. Cascade Ave., suite 110.
CU Regent Steve Bosley, who chairs the committee, […]

Fort Carson will host the 6th Annual Community Sustainability Conference and Expo from noon to 9 p.m. Oct. 30 and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2886 S. Circle Drive.
This year’s theme is “Securing the Future – A Sustainability Strategy.”
The conference is an educational forum intended to provide […]

St. Louis-based nonprofit Webster University, which has two campuses in Colorado Springs, has received a $10 million donation from former U.S. Ambassador George H. Walker III.
The gift is the largest single donation in Webster’s 92-year history.
Walker cited Webster’s “tremendous international outreach” as the motivation for the donation.
“Having served abroad in Hungary for three years I […]

Reports today that Colorado’s K-12 schools aren’t making progress do not bode well for the state’s economic development efforts.
According to the 2007 Colorado Student Assessment Program results released yesterday, one-third of students cannot read adequately and nearly half are below standards in math, with 70 percent of 10th-graders below proficiency in arithmetic.
Colorado Springs is not […]