To Blocked Driveways - if you go to http://larimer.org/specialevent/ you can subscribe to Event Notifications using a link at the bottom of the page. When you get the email with the event notice you can reply.

OnlyFacts, why in the world would I have any animosity towards MC or TT? That's ridiculous like so many of your "facts." MC is actually a neighbor of mine and I've known TT for years. I really don't care one way or the other about the Dual Immersion program except happy they got the program they've been working on for years. Please remove my name from your libelous comment. I stopped reading these blogs because so many of the comments are by the same people. But I have a program that alerts me when my name is used. Please don't waste my time.

I don't see Choice as the problem but instead a possible cure. When parents choice their children out they do so because another school better provides what they want. By putting what parents want in an under-attended, poor-performing school you can draw students, bring in more money, and improve results.

When NVCS submitted its charter application to the district, Admin and the Board decided to have their own offerings of Core Knowledge and put it in Truscott and Bill Reed to attract students and improve results. Unfortunately over time the district decided they only needed to be 51% true to Core Knowledge and perhaps it has been dropped altogether at Truscott . (Does look like a lot of students are choicing out of Truscott.)

Conversely, Winona has had years where they decided to not teach Science at all. I don't know if the parents were warned but I know I would have pulled my children. Best thing Winona could do is become some type of magnet school parents want.

ELL students don't necessarily cost more. St. Vrain's English Language Acquisition program for new ELLs is effective and cost efficient. http://svvsd.org/about/departments/english-langua...
Perhaps it is the thinking behind the push for Dual Immersion in a few schools even though it was parents' third choice on a survey about options. What I would also add, if not already done, is using iPad apps for preschoolers and using preschool apps for learning English for ELL kids.

Winona would have a lot more money if there weren't 400+ students choicing out of the school. . The school has been Accredited by the state with Improvement Plan for the last two years as well as 2008 & 2009. So those that can flee, do. A lot of the FRL and special needs kids can't. More money won't necessarily fix this but improving the academics would.
(http://thompsonschools.org/cms/lib07/CO01900772/Centricity/Domain/2835/20Winona%20Elementary%20School.pdf and schoolview.org)

They get yearly Accreditation from the state and submit SUIPs just like the rest of the public schools in TSD.

A friend of mine asked me to go but it wasn't what she thought it would be.

bobeber and only facts one again demonstrating their norm of nothing constructive to contribute and instead just propagating falsehoods.

At the Garfield Parent Info session on 6/2 with the objective to get people to host parties to inform the community, the misstatement of facts that went uncorrected was troubling. For example, a teacher in the audience informed us with authority that the teacher turnover rate in TSD, according to the chalkbeat article, is 24%. That isn't even the number reported and it was convenient to leave out all the caveats that the number includes - teachers who retire or become principals or some other admin position, etc. The interview of the author of the chalkbeat article on cpr.org pointed out that turnover isn't always a bad thing and it isn't the highly rated teachers that are leaving (talking presumably about the statewide turnover rate) I do hope you listened to it after MLR posted it on TSDRW.

LOL, you, onlyfacts and barbcares with never anything constructive to contribute hiding behind fake names. I know who one of you is and maybe 2. Perhaps you feel emboldened by the "house parties" that are passing along misinformation. No matter to me. I really don't care who is on the Board.

Since you post anonymously you are not a spokes person for Berthoud. I certainly don't agree with your attack posts and I am a Berthoud resident.

Thank you for this JeanetteHM. It seems to be a problem with those who post anonymously.