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October 21, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
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EnglewoodHerald.net
VOLUME 101 | ISSUE 36
Englewood council candidates mingle with voters Voters say development, housing are front-of-mind issues in this election BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Candidates seeking positions on Englewood City Council in the current election met with voters the afternoon of Oct. 14 to talk, eat and drink as conversations ranged from business development to affordable housing. Hosted at the farm-to-table restaurant Grow + Gather, five of the six candidates running for council had the chance to hear from Englewood
Colecchi amends $300 discrepancy in report six days after filing BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
had less than 25% of students meeting or exceeding expectations in reading. One Keystone center expert warned of a “learning loss” that could hobble students well into the future. “I think the limited data we have sends a clear message,” said Berrick Abramson, senior policy director and director of the education program at Keystone Policy Center. “We need to double down our efforts because we also know … a loss one year will be compounded as they move to the next level.” Another of the organization’s
Mary Colecchi, who is running to be an at-large city council member in the ongoing Englewood mail-in election, initially had a $300 discrepancy in her campaign donations, according to her finance filings with the City of Englewood. She amended that report six days after filing it and said the discrepancy was over $300 she contributed to her campaign on Sept. 28, which she hadn’t reported in her original filing. Candidates reported their contributions and expenditures between Aug. 1 and Oct. 7 and filings were due Oct. 12. Colecchi, in an email statement to Colorado Community Media, said the $300 she donated but initially did not report went toward campaign signs. Colecchi reported a total of $745 in itemized contributions of $20 or more and $20 in non-itemized contribution of $19.99 and less for a total of $765. Colecchi spent $604.64 on campaign expenses and received $20 in non-itemized donations, her
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Mary Colecchi, left, a candidate for councilmember at large, speaks with Englewood voter and resident Danielle Carr during a candidate meet and great on Oct. 14.
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PHOTO BY ROBERT TANN
Colo. kids fell behind on math during pandemic Decline means the state’s labor force may lack needed skills BY ERICA BREUNLIN THE COLORADO SUN
Colorado students tumbled further behind in math as the pandemic closed schools and learning went largely virtual, according to a new analysis of this year’s state assessments results. The report from the Keystone Policy Center, a nonprofit research group, found that math test scores
Englewood candidates report first round of fundraising
plummeted for many students across the state, falling at an even faster rate than the state’s longbeleaguered literacy rate. In the 4th grade, for example, only 28.5% of students met or exceeded grade-level expectations, down 5 percentage points from 33.6% in 2019, becoming “a real point of concern statewide,” the report noted. Test results from this year also show that 35% of districts saw fewer than 20% of students meet or exceed expectations in math. By comparison, reading proficiency among fifth graders fell roughly 1 percentage point to 47.2% during that period. And 12% of districts
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