Adams 14 to consolidate schools

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Adams 14 School District board of education voted Feb. 14 to consolidate two schools and move Lester Arnold High School due to declining enrollment e vote was 3-2.

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As Denver metro counties continue to under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in e state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in e ect since September, is the set of di erent levels of restrictions that each county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. e dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came a er the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. e decision means Hanson and Monaco elementary schools will merge and be located at the Monaco facility, 7631 Monaco St. In addition, Lester Arnold High School students will move into the former Hanson building, 7133 E. 73rd Ave. e deadline for these moves is August. e state recently switched to color identi ers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-

A press statement said the decision also means construction of new classrooms in the Hanson building to make room for the Health Professions and Human Services Academy at Adams City High School.

It’s not clear if the decision is related to the ongoing dispute between

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