Seventh grader Macayla got the surprise of a lifetime Friday night when her father, Staff Sergeant Michael LaMar, returned home after spending the last two years at Fort Carson in Colorado.
Police said school staff reported the shooting after hearing gunfire Wednesday afternoon.
Community members, students, and education advocates are already focusing on the qualities they hope to see in the district’s next leader.
On Tuesday, the task force met at Central High School and allowed for public comment.
The state's Efficient and Effective School Governance Task Force will meet at Central High School at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Women were celebrated Saturday at an event called Women's Equality is Human Equality.
Nearly 100,000 students are set for the first day of school at Jefferson County Public Schools on Thursday.
Two JCPS parents filed a civil rights lawsuit in June claiming against the school district's new busing plan.
Pollio said it's taken the better part of three months to lock in the district's bus routing plan for the new school year and he said it'd be a "major lift" to have to redo it all.
Leaders have been working all summer long to make changes after some students arrived home as late as 10 p.m. on the first day of school in August 2023, prompting school to be canceled for two days to resolve the issues.