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Teacher housing approval would include more than $900,000 in fee waivers
CARBONDALE, Colorado — A quarter of the affordable housing units in each phase of the Roaring Fork School District Re-1's teacher housing development would be reserved for teachers and district staff working or living in Carbondale at the time... more...
  03/11/2010 11:14am
CRES students help design their own playground
CARBONDALE, Colorado — Designer Dennis Wille has heard a lot of crazy ideas when he asks school children what they would like to see on their new playgrounds — bungee jumping, hot tubs, underground pools, food courts — you name...
  03/01/2010 11:50am
Youth panelists to discuss high school and beyond
CARBONDALE, Colorado — The Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program (AZYEP) and community radio station KDNK sponsor a youth panel discussion where students will share their concerns about their high school education and the social and global issues...
  02/22/2010 12:43pm
CMC bill clears senate committee hurdle by a 7-1 vote
DENVER, Colorado — The Colorado Senate Education Committee voted 7-1 Wednesday in support of SB 101, which would allow Colorado Mountain College to offer a limited number of four-year bachelor's degrees.
  02/18/2010 12:18pm
All-valley high school dance in Basalt to assist Haiti effort
BASALT, Colorado — High school students from Aspen to New Castle will get together at a dance in Basalt on Friday night to raise money for Haitian children.
  02/11/2010 3:51pm
State higher ed officials want CMC to wait on four-year degree plan
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — The Colorado Department of Higher Education wants Colorado Mountain College to hold off on its request before the state Legislature to offer four-year degree programs, until a new statewide higher education strategic...
  02/03/2010 2:24pm
CMC sees another increase in enrollment with spring semester
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Colorado Mountain College student enrollment increased even more to start the spring semester than it did in the fall, continuing an upward trend that's being experienced by community colleges across the country.
  02/03/2010 2:20pm
Raising readers — and literacy rates — one little book at a time
Educators in area school districts are starting to collect hard data to help prove the driving theory behind a popular program begun six years ago to put books in the hands of preschool students from Parachute to Aspen.
  02/03/2010 2:16pm
X-Gamers address climate change in local schools
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — One of snowboarding's hottest trick riders will be here next week, along with a locally born educator who now is working for a national nonprofit, to help local high school students learn more about global...
  01/25/2010 12:30pm
Area school districts cast wary eye on Race to the Top funds
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Local school districts are taking a wait-and-see approach to the Colorado Department of Education's $377 million federal Race to the Top grant application submitted this week.
  01/21/2010 4:17pm
Music directors form valleywide children's chorus
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colorado — A longtime dream by two downvalley school choir directors to bring together the best young voices in the Roaring Fork Valley for a valleywide children's chorus is becoming a reality.
  01/19/2010 11:35am
Carbondale Students of the Month
The Carbondale Students of the Month were honored at the Jan 12 Carbondale Trustee meeting.

Picture, front row from left, Mylo Ornowski, Sasha Eason and William Rose; and back row, Cameron Doherty, Misael Ramos and Evelina Sutro.
  01/14/2010 1:35pm
Some CMC courses being assessed amid budget concerns
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Some smaller Colorado Mountain College courses could be phased out over the next couple of years if efforts to boost enrollment aren't successful.
  12/30/2009 11:06am
CMC seeks to offer four-year degrees
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Colorado Mountain College's board of trustees voted unanimously Monday to seek state legislative approval to offer a limited number of four-year, baccalaureate degrees.
  11/10/2009 5:12pm
Online portal gives Re-1 parents a view into student progress
Parents of Roaring Fork School District Re-1 students who ask at this week's parent-teacher conferences how best to keep track of their child's progress in school are likely to hear the answer, “the Parent Portal.”
  10/29/2009 4:53pm
Darfuri tribesman, author visits CMC campuses
Colorado Mountain College invites a Darfuri tribesman and noted author of a new book exposing the genocide taking place in his homeland, as part of the college's Common Reader book event next week.
  10/28/2009 3:55pm
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