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Animas High School to feature student projects Thursday

Year-end exhibit will highlight student projects at all grade levels

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Durango School District to overhaul graduation requirements

This spring our Board of Education will adopt a new set of graduation guidelines that will greatly shift the process of earning a high school diploma. When most of us went to scho...

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Durango School News

Education Briefs

Community college opens food pantry for students Southwest Colorado Community College, 701 Camino del Rio, has opened the East Campus Panther Student Pantry. Any current SCCC stud...

DATE: May 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Powerhouse Science Center revving up a year after closure

Durango science center closed suddenly one year ago

DATE: May 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Can ‘The Donald’ make summer school great again?

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Professor Robert Smith covers a lot of ground teaching American government, yet recent class discussions ranging from the electoral college to minority rights have kept retur...

DATE: May 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Internships provide lessons for the real world

Mountain Middle School students participate across Durango area

DATE: May 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Eighth-graders learn Keys to Success in high school

Students learn advocacy, positive self-image and relationship skills

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas High School enrollment on target for next year

Need to repair relationships in community may take years

DATE: May 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango High School students shine in Nashville

They may hail from a small town, but the DECA members from Durango High School played outside their weight class at the national finals in Nashville, Tennessee, last week. Previou...

DATE: May 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Teens need money skills before paychecks arrive

Financial literacy + summer part-time job = responsible teenagers

DATE: May 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Gap years can help students thrive in college

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia is taking a year off after graduating from high school before attending Harvard University as part of an expanding program for students k...

DATE: May 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Education Briefs

Child care providers can apply to council The Early Childhood Council of La Plata County is accepting applications from licensed child care providers (centers and homes) who will or have rec...

DATE: May 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education