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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 24 • MAY 3, 2018
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Demonstrating the price of education, not a bargain basement deal
Commuting by bicycles to the “Red for Ed” teacher’s walkout, leading the way Cherry Creek School District Teachers Anni Chaloupka with Jared Zents and Sabrina Raugutt. Photos by Stefan Krusze
On April 26, and 27, Colorado Public School Teachers joined the states of West Virginia, Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky in walking out of classrooms and off their jobs. Not just to protest low teaching wages, they were raising awareness in the overall disproportionate rate of public education funding. Most importantly, the needs of the students and the classrooms where their work is being done. Over the two-day period, teachers from about 18 Colorado school districts participated in the walkout,
which included 1,400 teachers from the Cherry Creek School District who chose to take a personal day to participate. Cherry Creek School District Superintendent Harry Bull has been vocal for the increased need for more funding for public education. He does not take lightly an entire district school closure, however, and advanced preparations were taken on his behalf in order for teachers from CCSD to participate, after the notice of Continued on page 14
Engineer Jim Schreckengast with a vintage largescale slide rule. The type that was used to teach advanced mathematics to engineering students before there were hand-held calculators and classroom computers. Perhaps something to look at, since the use of slide rules helped to put a man into outer space, on “the moon and return him safely to Earth.”
Honoring survivors during Holocaust Awareness Month with a unique portrait exhibit The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is prominently located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Dedicated
in 1993, it symbolizes the time it began to be commonplace to talk openly and teach about the Holocaust in our schools. Understanding and accepting the terrible things that happened
has been possible because we have heard it recounted by those who experienced this tragedy firsthand and lived to tell about it—the survivors. It is a true, though painful fact that they
will disappear from the earth in a few short years, and with them, the firsthand accounts that only they can give about what happened to them, their loved ones, and their communities.
Wayne Armstrong is a photographer and photo editor in the marketing and communications department of the University of Denver. He is called
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