Common Grounds Cafe was established in 2014 as a partnership between Durango School District 9-R and the Durango Library. The Cafe’s mission is to create a viable job-skills training site for students with special needs. The work experiences provides students with skills to find independency in the community and to obtain work.
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Durango School District 9-R has the opportunity to accelerate highly advanced gifted children under age 5 for kindergarten and/or under age 6 for first grade. This Early Access is for those eligible students if their birthdays fall after October 1st. It is intended to support students who are evaluated to be exceptional in aptitude/cognitive reasoning, academics, school readiness and motivation.
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Tonight's GTPAC meeting has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date.
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The following is a non-emergency message from Durango School District 9-R for all parents, students and staff at Escalante Middle School. Due to unrelated police activity in the area, we have an increased security presence at the school this morning, Thursday, January 24, 2019. Please drop your students off near the entries and ask that they immediately enter the school. We will update families should the situation change. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the school's office at 970-247-9490. Thank you.
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At the Board of Education meeting on January 22nd, the board approved revisions to the 2019-2020 Academic Calendar. Attached is the new calendar.
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Did you know you can set up your City Market Value card to give back to one of our schools, student organizations, or PTOs. It's easy to do, but it needs to be updated every year.
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Durango High School welcomes you to an 8th grade parent night for students and their families to learn more about our school on Monday, January 28th from 5-7pm at DHS. Parents and prospective students will have the opportunity to explore the variety of elective options and core classes offered at DHS. Families will learn more about concurrent enrollment opportunities, AP courses, work experience, internships, clubs, activities, athletics, and student support programs.
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Each week, Durango 9-R recognizes an employee that has gone above and beyond expectations to serve a child, a family, their school/department or their peers. Check out who we recognized in December.
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The Durango 9-R Board of Education is holding a Special Work Session tonight, Wednesday, December 19th at 5pm. The topic will be a review of communications around recent events.
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This year, Escalante’s GT Coordinator and Ag teacher, Lu Boren, combined 7th and 8th exploratory classes to tackle some close-to-home real issues that the community of Durango struggled with this summer and in summer’s past - forest ecology and the effects of fire suppression on current forest health.
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