The deadline for Jeffco Schools first-round choice enrollment using Enroll Jeffco is 11:59 pm on Friday, Jan. 15. Enroll Jeffco is Jeffco’s districtwide PK-12 school search tool and online enrollment system, which launched last year. All families will use the system to enroll students for the 2021-22 school year. Families must use Enroll Jeffco to […]
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Jeffco Schools plans to open the new Warren Tech South campus in Fall 2021 on Dakota Ridge High School property in south Jeffco. Warren Tech South will be Jeffco’s third Warren Tech campus. It will join the north and central campuses that currently provide more than 30 career and technical education programs to Jeffco students. […]
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Additional lesson planning support and curriculum resources are part of a plan Jeffco Schools staff are implementing to improve student achievement after receiving 2019 CMAS results. The new supports are part of a plan to improve outcomes on mandatory statewide testing, including the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) for grades 3-8 and the PSAT […]
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Beginning this August, Jeffco Schools will roll out its TechforEd program that will equip fifth and ninth graders with a new touchscreen Chromebook or iPad. Jeffco announced the 4-year program (formerly known as the 1:1 Technology Initiative) this week. “Jeffco Public Schools is very excited to start the TechforEd program,” said Diana Wilson, communications executive […]
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Jeffco Schools may pilot a two-hour snow delay as an alternative to a snow day as early as this week, if current snow forecasts hold true. A letter explaining how the two-hour weather delay will work was sent to Jeffco families and staff on March 5. Superintendent Jason Glass announced the March weather delay pilot […]
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Staffing all middle and high school entry points with Jeffco security personnel, ensuring there is a School Resource Officer (SRO) at each middle and high school, adding campus supervisors to all middle schools, and increasing the number of qualified behavioral health specialists were top recommendations presented by the Safety Task Force at the Jeffco School […]
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Jeffco Schools‘ Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) achievement results remained ahead of the state average for the 2017-2018 school year. The district’s performance reflected trends seen across the state, though Jeffco Schools students continue to score above the state average at every grade level. Colorado’s third through eighth graders have been taking the CMAS […]
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Just four days into the new school year, Columbine High School students noticed sewage seeping under the wall and into their English classroom, feet from where they were seated. Students in that classroom and two other affected classrooms were quickly evacuated to a different part of the building so maintenance personnel could address the situation. […]
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“How can we strengthen connections across Jeffco?,” Jeffco Schools Superintendent Jason Glass asked the Community Engagement Task Force. The task force held their first meeting June 12 to discuss how Jeffco Schools can improve community interactions. In his opening remarks, Glass emphasized the importance of reaching the larger Jeffco community beyond staff and families with children […]
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The Colorado Department of Education released results from the 2018 Teaching and Learning Conditions in Colorado (TLCC) survey last month. The TLCC survey asks Colorado preschool through high school teachers and administrators to rate their school’s teaching and learning conditions. The TLCC survey, formerly known as TELL Colorado, is a confidential biennial survey required by House Bill 08-1384 to […]
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