Schools and immigrants: Impact hits downvalley harder

Roaring Fork Schools saw a notable shift in demographics around 2011 that puts the lower Roaring Fork Valley school district in a unique class. For the first time that year, minority students, and specifically Hispanic students, became the majority in public schools serving the communities ...

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Enrique Gonzalez: Mentors key to immigrant student success
Learning English as an only child from a Spanish-speaking immigrant family came fairly easy for Enrique Gonzalez ....
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Schools lag in hiring teachers to match student demographic
A steady rise in the number of Latino students in area public schools has prompted a push to hire a more representative mix of teachers and support staff to help serve that population ...
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DACA supporters rally in Glenwood Springs
Young, undocumented immigrants and their supporters rallied outside of Glenwood Springs High School Tuesday as part of a statewide week of demonstrations pushing Congress to pass the Dream Act ...
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Schools looking for new ways to celebrate diversity
When a group of mostly Latina students at Glenwood Springs High School formed a new club last year, the idea was to try to bring students from divergent backgrounds together to celebrate and promote understanding of their differences....