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AOC: Halloween happenings across DSST!

While jack o’ lanterns, skeletons and spiderwebs haunt front porches across town, schools throughout the DSST network are also taking some time to celebrate one of the best holidays of the year- Halloween!

When families and schools work together, students do better.

n the 1990s, parents in a Central East Austin, Texas, school didn’t know that their children, who came home with As and Bs on their report cards, were actually scoring in the bottom quartile on state tests. But when an organization meant to connect families and schools started sharing student performance data, these families, who were primarily from low-income households, led the effort to turn their school around in student performance, teacher turnover, and attendance.

Understanding the tax increase for education on your Colorado ballot

Colorado voters face an important education decision this November: whether to approve a major statewide tax increase for schools. This request represents the third time in recent years that Colorado voters have been asked to put more money into schools.

Onsite flu shot clinics begin 11/2

It’s time to fight the flu - Flu shot clinics begin November 2^nd!   Protect yourself, protect others, & prevent the spread of germs. 

At Our Core: Amendment 73 & a friendly reminder to vote

Your vote this November matters, specifically for the future of our schools and our students.  

CO free college application day

Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that all 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado­, and several private institutions, will allow students to apply for free on Tuesday, Oct. 30 as part of theinaugural Colorado Free Application Day. Watch Gov. Hickenlooper's message to students.  

Report following school integration in San Antonio complete

In the nation’s most economically segregated city, an innovative new approach to school integration designed to address poverty, trauma, and parental choice is working.

5 ways proposed immigration rule could impact CO students and schools

Advocates for immigrant families fear that a proposed federal rule governing green card decisions could lead to more children going hungry and losing housing and health care. That, in turn, could pose challenges for educators and schools.

SPF Results Released

Voter registration deadlines for each state

Election Day is Nov. 6, but voter registration deadlines in many states are well before that.