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SE Express: 22 to Watch in '22
The Southeast is blessed with an abundance of these unique and passionate champions, working in their own ways and using their own talents to improve 80916 and 80910 and creating positive change for all of Colorado Springs. We profiled 22 of them here.
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Spotlight: Harrison High School Band
Harrison High School’s Band had great success this semester!
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CSU Pueblo: Colorado Promise Offers Free Tuition to Students in Colorado with Family Income of $50,000 or Less
Colorado State University Pueblo announced a new enrollment initiative called Colorado Promise, which offers free tuition to new first-time Colorado residents with a gross family income of $50,000 or less. This tuition guarantee requires full-time enrollment and is guaranteed for one year, but can be continued for up to four years if students maintain eligibility.
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Gazette: Space Foundation helping Pikes Peak region high school students learn how to start space businesses
With the help of a $1.5 million Department of Defense grant, the Space Foundation is teaching 60 students each from District 11, District 20, District 2 and District 3 lessons about aerospace and engineering with a curriculum built around what would be needed for a trip to Mars.
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Southeast Express: Pikes Peak Elementary School to become Family Success Center
The Family Success Center will house a variety of programs and services for students, parents and family members.
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Harrison strives to meet students, parents, community needs
As a district, we support students and their families to ensure all students can fully engage in their educational experience. You will find school supplies, laptops, hotspots, transportation, tutoring, clubs, sports, breakfast, lunch, snacks and preschool are provided at no cost to our families.
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Choice Enrollment Now Open
If you would like to request that your student attend a school other than the attendance area of your address, now is the time to fill out the Choice form.
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Southeast Express: leaders honored at Mayor's Young Leader Award ceremony
Corey Williams, president of the Harrison School District 2 Board of Education, won the Education Award, for which Sierra High School Assistant Principal Connor Beaudoin was also a finalist.
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KKTV: Free before- and after-school child care for Harrison School District 2 families already has over 1,000 students enrolled
D-2 kindergarten to fifth graders can show up to 14 locations in the district five days a week. The program began in August and already has about 1,012 students enrolled.
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KKTV: Free adult education classes in Colorado Springs help with workforce readiness and learning English
Classes are in the morning and afternoon for two hours at a time. Parents can also utilize District 2′s new, and free, before- and after-school program for their kids while they learn.
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Fox21News: Harrison School District Two awarded $760,495 grant
The Colorado Department of Education awarded Harrison School District Two a competitive grant called the Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant.
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KRDO: Venetucci Farm host kindergartners for free pumpkin tradition
Stratmoor Hills kindergarten students not only got to pick out their own pumpkin but spent the day also learning about the process of what a plant needs to grow.
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KOAA: Thousands of volunteers come together for CityServe Day
Volunteers worked at Sierra High School to help beautify the campus.
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Register Now for Adult Education Classes
Beginning in August 2021, D2 will offer FREE Adult Education and English Classes. Continue reading for details and registration sign-up.
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Southeast Express: Harrison’s peer mediation class shows results
At Harrison, peer groups meet for discussion, to resolve conflicts and to find solutions that don’t equal suspension or expulsion.
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Gazette: New multi-district online school to open under Colorado Springs school district
Aspire Online Academy will be available for students across the state.
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KOAA: Harrison D2 students volunteer time to help Care and Share Food Bank
About a dozen students from the district spent the past year volunteering their time and driving their personal cars to give food to local families in need, while Care and Share is the organization helping to provide all of the food.
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Video: HSD2 Addressing Equity in Education
From daily dose 719: COVID has created challenges for schools and families across the US but in many ways it brought us together. HSD2 has been working to address inequities long before COVID, which put them ahead of the game for providing resources for families in the district.
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Southeast Express: Sierra High School’s Melia Palaroan earns CHSAA StuCo spot
Sierra High School's Melia Palaroan joined Colorado High School Activities Association's State Student Council and Leadership team on April 15, 2021, and will assist with various projects.
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Colorado Education Initiative: Up-Close with Harrison School District Leaders
Q & A with Superintendent Wendy Birhanzel and Assistant Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Shelley Becker
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No-Cost College for HSD2 Graduates
The Dakota Promise provides free college tuition and academic support to every qualifying high school graduate in the school district.
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Standard Response Protocol (SRP) Lockout/Lockdown Parent Handout
Standard Response Protocol (SRP) has changed terminology this year. View the English and Spanish flyer.
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Hey parents, have you heard of AVID?
AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a system that helps all scholars become organized with their academics and beyond.
