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Tollgate students discover how to make life easier
Innovations are largely driven by the quest to make life easier, a concept Tollgate Elementary School of Expeditionary Learning’s second grade students have enjoyed exploring. The class recently...
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Aurora businesses invest in Aurora Public Schools students with disabilities
It’s the Aurora Public Schools’ mission to accelerate learning for every APS student in an equitable fashion. Thankfully, several businesses have committed to helping us do so. Through the Aurora...
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Aurora Public Schools volunteers rock
Volunteers are an essential part of the Aurora Public Schools team. These selfless individuals help APS thrive in many ways. APS is thankful and deeply indebted to all of our volunteers for giving so...
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University Hospital staff aim to keep kids safe one helmet at a time
With coconuts, rubber brains and skull molds in hand, a team of University Hospital doctors and nurses are taking schools by storm. On behalf of the Helmet Heads organization, the group visited...
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Columbia Middle School Students Cream Teachers With Pies For Great Cause
APS 2020 Strategic Plan Core Belief: Students take an active and ongoing responsibility for their learning. Students at Columbia Middle School are passionate about finding creative and fun ways to help...
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Aurora Central student earns $10K Comcast scholarship
APS 2020: Shaping the Future – Core Belief: Students take an active and ongoing responsibility for their learning. Aurora Central High School senior Yadap Adhikari receives his $10,000 scholarship...
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Rangeview’s Vic Strouse Earns Athletic Administrator of the Year Honors
Photo by Heather A. Longway/The Aurora Sentinel Story by Rondah Frierson Rangeview High School The Colorado Athletic Director’s Association recently named Rangeview High School’s Vic Strouse the 2015...
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Hinkley senior, top 10 graduate, earns Gates Millennium Scholarship
Hinkley High School senior Salina Tesfay has some pressing business at hand. And it’s the kind of business known only to a select group of students nationwide. Tesfay recently learned that she earned a...
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Aurora Public Schools honors Crossroads students at exit ceremony
Congratulations to the 21 students who recently completed the Crossroads Transition Center program! The program helps students with disabilities gain the independence and job skills they need to enter...
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Aurora Public Schools leaders polish their skills at leadership summit
Barry Posner Aurora Public Schools leaders recently gathered at the 2015 Leadership Summit to develop a deeper understanding about how to be more effective in their roles and maintain an equitable...
View ArticleVolunteers packed 600 “lunch booster bags” for Denver-area families in need
As part of the 2015 Global Sustainability Summit in Denver last Thursday, volunteers gathered to pack 600 bags with needed food items for children as they return to school. Two local food pantries,...
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North Middle School students, community share special bond with school garden
The students of North Middle School Health Sciences and Technology Campus may not have considered becoming professional chefs, but many of them are learning what it takes to plant and cultivate fresh...
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Aurora Public Schools chief scores prestigious award
Left to right: CASE Executive Director Bruce Caughey, CASE Policy Leadership Award recipient Escárcega, CASE Lobbist Elisabeth Rosen, and Legislative Committee Co-chairs Bruce Messinger and Randy...
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Aurora Public Schools Welcome Center hosts inaugural Orientation Day
Parents attend an English Language Development workshop. Immigrant and refugee families new to Aurora and the United States recently gained a better understanding of the U.S. educational system at the...
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Aurora Public Schools students, staff team up to “Go Green” for green
Through the Aurora Public Schools Green Stars Program, students and staff are collaborating to reduce their environmental footprint and their hard work is paying off two fold. In addition to the reward...
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New playground opens at Park Lane Elementary
The students and community of Park Lane Elementary School are riding high these days following the completion of upgrades to the school’s outdoor playground. Thanks to more than $200,000 in grants from...
View ArticleColorado PTA to educate parents, families, and communities about state...
Colorado PTA has received a grant from National PTA to provide presentations to help educate parents, families, and communities about our various state assessments and standardized tests, including...
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Aurora Public Schools celebrates the Edna and John W. Mosley P-8 grand opening
More than 800 parents, students and community members joined APS staff to celebrate the grand opening of the Edna and John W. Mosley P-8 on Oct. 1. Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and Mosley family members...
View ArticleWells Fargo Awards $212,500 Grant to Brothers Redevelopment for Aurora Housing
DENVER, COLO – Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced a $212,500 grant to help support Brothers Redevelopment’s Paris Street project in Aurora, Colo. When complete, the Paris Street...
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Wells Fargo Foundation Awards Goodwill Industries of Denver $10,000 for...
DENVER, Colo. (January 13, 2016) – The Wells Fargo Foundation is helping thousands of Coloradans get career development resources by supporting Goodwill Industries of Denver. The foundation awarded a...
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