Posts Tagged ‘Adams 12 Five Star Schools’

The City of Thornton has offered to help Adams 12 Five Star Schools with its budget mess by taking over some of the expenses associated with middle school sports.  The city’s generosity however gives rise to bigger questions as to whether or not it is the city’s responsibility to provide the district a bailout. Middle [...]

Two years ago the Colorado State Legislature and then-Governor Bill Ritter used so-called “fees” to bolster the state’s coffers while evading the requirements of TABOR.  Faced with budget cuts, Adams 12 Five Star Schools seeks to use the same underhanded tactic by forcing parents and students to pay “fees” for basic items required for education. [...]

It has been two years since Adams 12 Five Star School District’s disastrous attempt to purchase the Auto-Trol building.  Now that deal and the money wasted is getting the scrutiny of channel 7’s investigative reporters.  I wrote back in November of 2008, “they [Adams 12] need to be responsible citizens in the community and exercise [...]

Adams 12 Five Star Schools announced yesterday the first round of major budget cuts.  $24 million in cuts will be made and over 180 people will lose their job.  It is not a pleasant sight but a reality that had to be faced in these tough economic times.  Schools districts, just like private industry and [...]

As teachers, you are some of the most prized and valuable assets of our communities.  We entrust you with our children and you shape and educate them into the people they will become as adults.  Like many jobs, yours is one intertwined with politics but did you know that you actually pay to support political [...]

Certainly I am the first one to take Adams 12 Five Star Schools to task when they do something wrong.  Conversely, it is very important to applaud the district when they do something right and yesterday they did something that I find extraordinary.  The district announced that the new aquatics center on 136th & Holly [...]

Update, 3:30pm:  Adams 12 Five Star Schools Superintendent Mike Paskewicz is leaving it up to individual principals / administrators to decide whether or not to show President Obama’s speech.  We know of at least one elementary school that has opted NOT to show the speech and will instead focus on the established curriculum (as they [...]

Adams 12 Five Star School District announced late yesterday that superintendent Mike Paskewicz will be leaving the district effective October 1 to return to his home state of Michigan.  Paskewicz was offered and accepted a similar position with Northview Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  His leaving is hardly a surprise as his hunt for [...]

Last month the results from nearly 300 CSAP tests from Silver Hills Middle School had to be thrown away because the school’s principal cheated.  Tracy Webber, looked at the CSAP test and then gave her teachers a practice question to administer that was so close to the real thing, the teachers raised the red flag [...]

As I discussed in my posting on the post election analysis of 3A and 3B, I am more than happy to post opinions that anyone wishes to share – whether agreeing with me or not.  Simply use the Contact Us link in the menu on the left to send it my way.  There are a [...]