r/ArvadaCO

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Odd question but I’m looking for a really good hill to run up and down a bunch of times for no reason in this area! Suggestions?

Good to know we have hardcore Christian nationalist neighbors. I knew that we did, but man. Be safe out there. cant get any more anti community than this can ye?

Hi r/LakewoodCO, Suzie Glassman again. Part 2 is out. It's about why the gap in Part 1 exists, and a lot of it comes down to who's still there to teach.

Between 2021 and 2026, the three Title I schools in my comparison lost licensed staff to resignation or retirement at about 33% a year. At the four wealthier schools, it was about 20%. That doesn't explain everything on its own, but it's the condition under which a one-teacher course is hardest to keep.

English Composition I is the clearest case. At Jefferson, one teacher held the approval to teach it from 2018 through 2023-24. The district posted her position that June and recorded a new hire in August, but no teacher appears on its rolls as approved to teach the course in 2024-25. At Wheat Ridge, three teachers held the approval. When one stepped away last year, another who'd been approved since 2018 was already there to keep the class running.

Green Mountain, at the other end of our four, produces more college credit per student than any school I looked at.

Jeffco has a program meant to keep a course from leaving with the teacher. Over four years, it put $9,733 into Green Mountain and $3,000 into Jefferson. Alameda International got nothing.

Usual caveat: this is a seven-school comparison, not a districtwide statistic, and it is not a story about anybody's kids being less interested.

If you teach in Jeffco, or you've tried to earn a master's in your subject while carrying a full load, I'd like to hear how that went. Suzie@cotln.org, or right here.

https://www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/title-i-school-teacher-leaves-college-courses-jeffco/article_c2bf1a3f-d950-4290-b894-8b7da3e56b10.html

Does anyone recognize this delivery or leasing office room? FedEx delivered my package to what looks like a mail room or leasing office somewhere in Arvada close to my address. I live in a SFH and definitely don’t have a room… I know it’s a long shot but if anyone recognizes this room I might be able to get it. Otherwise I think it’s gone because FedEx refuses to help me.

Missing Bella Pugosi in Denver https://imgur.com/gallery/lgOtVaS

Hi r/LakewoodCO. I'm Suzie Glassman, education reporter for the Colorado Trust for Local News and the Golden Transcript. I spent 10 months on this one, and four of the schools in it are ours, so I'd rather bring it here directly than just drop a link.

Background. Concurrent enrollment lets a high schooler take a college course and earn credit for both, and Colorado law makes the district pay the tuition. Jeffco told its board that came to $8.5 million in savings last year. It reports that as a single districtwide number and has never broken it out by school.

So I built the school-by-school version for seven neighboring high schools. Four of them serve this area: Green Mountain, Lakewood, Alameda International and Jefferson Jr/Sr. They are at opposite ends of what I found.

Green Mountain offers 19 college courses on campus this year and produces more credits per student than any school in the comparison. It built College Algebra into a sequence that runs through Calculus.

Jefferson offers three. The only college math it ever had was College Algebra, which last ran in the early 2020s and hasn't been scheduled since. Alameda offers eight, but half of those rest on a single teacher hired last year.

Here's the part I keep coming back to. In 2019, more than half of Jefferson's graduating class took one of these courses, a higher share than at any of the wealthier high schools around it. This is not a story about our kids not wanting college credit.

What changed is who was there to teach it. Between 2021 and 2026, the three Title I schools in my comparison lost licensed staff to resignation or retirement at about 33% a year, against 20% at the four wealthier ones. A college course lives or dies with the one teacher credentialed to teach it.

Two things I want to be careful about. This is a seven-school comparison, not a districtwide statistic. And size doesn't explain it either. Lakewood High has about half again as many juniors and seniors as Green Mountain and produces far fewer credits per student.

If you have a student at any of the four, I'd like to know what the counseling office actually told you was on offer. Happy to answer questions about how I got the data. I'll be in the comments.

https://www.thegoldentranscript.com/special_article/opportunity-tax/part-1-the-gap/