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• Evans Elementary Students Back After Fire at School Play Video

  March 18, 2013 2:08 PM

  After almost a week off, students filed back into Evans Elementary School Monday morning. It was the first day of class since a student allegedly set fire to one of the school's bathrooms last Tuesday. Hundreds of students and their teachers and staff, are trying to get back to... more »

• Clean-Up Crews Get School Ready for Students' Return After Fire Play Video

  March 15, 2013 9:23 AM

  Crews continue to clean up Evans Elementary School in Colorado Springs Thursday and Friday, after a student set a fire in a bathroom that evacuated the school and shut it down for several days. Now crews are working around the clock to get the school ready for students' return on... more »

• Grant to pay for improvements at Bates Elementary

  March 26, 2012 3:11 PM

  The City of Colorado Springs has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the 2012 federal Safe Routes to School program, which will pay for improvements around Bates Elementary School in the Cragmoor neighborhood. The grant will pay for sidewalks, pedestrian ramps and a better school crossing location. Construction is... more »

• New pedestrian bridge makes kids safer

  March 16, 2012 2:22 PM

  A new pedestrian bridge will make walking to school safer at Stratmoor Hills Elementary. The bridge eliminates children having to cross B Street, some railroad tracks and Loomis Avenue on their way to and from school. The bridge is also lighted and provides some protection from bad weather. ... more »

• Body found at elementary school recovered

  December 10, 2011 10:09 AM

  The recovery effort is now over for for a teenager found dead in a vent on an elementary school roof yesterday afternoon. The body was extracted around 11 p.m. last night. Fire crews helped the El Paso County Sheriffs Office pull the body from 10-15 foot boiler vent.... more »

• Big changes could come to D-60 Play Video

  December 8, 2011 12:13 AM

  Pueblo parents are up in arms over proposed school closures and re-alignments. For months, District 60 has been mulling over various plans to up academic achievement while dramatically cutting their budget. "Half of our 36 district schools are impacted." explains D-60 Spokesman Greg Sinn, "That's a full range of elementary,... more »

• Grade schools closed in Monument

  December 1, 2011 11:58 AM

  Administrators in Lewis Palmer School District 38 have closed all elementary schools today because of the changing weather conditions. All morning and afternoon kindergarten and preschool classes are canceled as well. The district has been under a 2 hour delayed start for the day. more »

• National Guard busy in Pueblo Tuesday

  October 5, 2010 10:39 AM

  You may see a National Guard helicopter flying over Pueblo today. No worries. It's not responding to a natural disaster or terrorist incident. Rather, its helping kids say no to drugs. Pueblo is gearing up for Red Ribbon Week, when schools and communities join together to promote healthy, drug-free... more »

• PETA stages a demonstration at Colorado Springs elementary school today

  May 26, 2010 5:47 PM

  Animal rights group PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) made a stop at a Colorado Springs elementary school this afternoon. A member in a wounded elephant costume called "Ellie" greeted students and parents as school got out at Evans Elementary around 3pm. The "elephant" handed out activity... more »

• School bus accident on Ft. Carson

  May 20, 2010 5:36 PM

  A school bus accident on Ft. Carson sent several students to the hospital Thursday afternoon. It happened around 12:35 p.m. near gate two. Students from Mountain Side Elementary school were returning from a field trip, when school officials say a car made a u-turn and hit the front of the... more »

• School embraces hydroponics

  April 21, 2010 2:09 PM

  Heritage Elementary School students will celebrate a school-wide "Green Day" on Friday, April 30 from 8:10 to noon. Thanks to a $1,000 Sustainability Grant award from the Bechtel Corporation last fall, students and staff purchased hydroponic aerogardens for all classes to grow and harvest herbs, vegetables, and flowers. So much... more »

• Pueblo District 60 braces for budget cuts

  March 31, 2010 12:12 AM

  School districts across the state have to tighten their belts and brace for budget cuts across the board. You can now add Pueblo School District 60 to that growing list. Many teachers in District 60 are not happy about proposed budget cuts. It has many worried they could lose money... more »

• Worms wiggle into classroom curriculum

  February 10, 2010 2:00 PM

  Students in 4th and 5th grade at Stratmoor Hills Elementary School will dig through clumps of compost and dirt Thursday as they learn more about science and worms. The school, where nearly 80 percent of students are from low-income households, partnered with University of Phoenix and the Catamount Institute to... more »

• Springs literacy group gives school a big donation

  December 18, 2009 1:54 PM

  Students at one local elementary school got a big surprise Friday morning--the last day of school before Christmas break. Every students at Beulah Heights Elementary in Pueblo received a bag full of ten books. More than 3,000 books were donated by the Dr. Barbara Swaby, with the Literacy for All... more »

• Realistic T-Rex dazzles students in Pueblo

  December 17, 2009 1:44 PM

  Haaff Elementary students were entertained--and a few frightened, when a 7-foot tall life-like Tyrannosaurus Rex stomped through their gymnasium Thursday. The special visit was a preview to the Walking with Dinosaurs production which comes to the Wold Arena in Colorado Springs next month. The T-Rex is a dinosaur costume worn... more »

• CSU-Pueblo donates books to children

  December 15, 2009 1:05 PM

  CSU-Pueblo is giving hundreds of elementary school students the gift of reading this Christmas. At Columbian Elementary students from all grade levels got to pick out one free book. CSU-Pueblo's Teacher Education Association recently held a book drive. They collected more than 1,000 books for several title one elementary schools... more »

• Pueblo City Schools names new superintendent

  September 16, 2009 4:07 PM

  A woman who has spent her entire professional career with Pueblo City School has been tapped as the district's new superintendent. Kathy West, who's been acting as interim superintendent, was named to the job Wednesday. "We had an outstanding pool of candidates", said Board president Stephanie Garcia. "But... more »