Q&A with Harlem Children's Campaign Founder Geoffrey Canada

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It isn’t tough for Geoffrey Canada to see the parallels between the Cherry Creek School District and the educational system in New York. Canada, the founder the Harlem Children’s Campaign and one of the featured subjects of David Guggenheim’s 2010 documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman,” visited Overland High School during Cherry Creek's "Success for Every Student" conference on April 16, addressing larger shortfalls in the American public education system. He also praised the “zone” teaching model that’s taking hold at the campus shared between Overland and Prairie Middle School. The Aurora Sentinel caught up with Canada to get his take on the new STEM facility at Overland, the problems with teachers’ unions and commonalities between Aurora and Harlem.

Special APS board meeting could decide Hinkley teachers' fate

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AURORA | A group of Hinkley High School teachers whose jobs are at risk could find out tonight whether they will keep their posts at the school next year.

The Aurora Public Schools District Board of Education will hold a special meeting tonight to vote on nonrenewal for more than 10 teachers from across the district. The agenda item is a holdover from last week’s board meeting, when the APS board voted 5-2 to reject the entire consent agenda and temporarily save the teachers.

Overland Scout free to publish on schedule for the rest of the school year, principal says

AURORA | Overland High School Principal Leon Lundie assured student journalists this week that they would be free to publish their newspaper without prior review for the rest of the school year.

In a meeting Monday with writers and editors from the Overland Scout, Lundie said the students would be free to run as many editions of the student paper as they could within their preapproved budget, and that the paper’s editorial content would not be reviewed or changed by school administrators. The meeting followed an earlier flap between the principal and the Scout staff, a conflict that stemmed from a specific story about the death of a student athlete.