Education Briefs DPS OFFERING FREE PARKING AT MEETINGS
People who want to attend Denver Public Schools’ board meetings and work sessions will now have a free parking option.
The board meets at the Emily Griffith campus, 1860 Lincoln St.
Visitors will be able to park in the “yellow” lot on Lincoln Street, north of 19th Street, after 4:30 p.m. on days when the board meets. Parking is firstcome, first-served.
Education department seeks summer meal sites. The Colorado Department of Education is seeking sponsors and sites for the summer meal program, which offers lunch or other meals to students for free.
The department is working with Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger and Hunger Free Colorado to provide resources for partner sites. Sponsors could be local governments, districts or other nonprofits, and sites could be schools, churches, community centers and other places that are safe and accessible to the public. Sponsors can offer educational or recreational activities, but that’s not required.
Colorado ranks 40th when it comes to participation in the meal program, meaning many students from low-income families could be going without meals over the summer.
Parents looking for summer meal sites can text FOOD or COMIDA to 877-877 or visit kidsfoodfinder.org.
Research: GPA tells more than ACT. A new study in the American Educational Research Association’s research journal found that students’ high school grades do a better job of predicting if they will successfully complete college than their ACT scores.
In some schools, students with high ACT scores were more likely to graduate from college, but that didn’t hold true across the schools studied, which all were public schools in
Chicago. The connection between higher gradepoint averages and higher odds of completing college held across high- and lowachieving schools, however.
The data couldn’t nail down why grades might be a better predictor than test scores, but the researchers speculated that grades might reflect a broader range of academic skills than tests, as well as showing that students can persist over time.
Lafayette student wins app contest. Andrew Woen, a 16-year-old who attends Peak to Peak High School in Boulder Valley School District, was the winner for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District in the Congressional App Challenge.
Woen’s app uses image recognition to tell users which items can be recycled. Winning apps were featured on the U.S. House of Representatives’ website, and their creators received $250 in credit with Amazon Web Services. — Meg Wingerter,
The Denver Post