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BY JONATHAN MANESS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

HENDERSON – The Prairie View high school volleyball team finished its season on a high note. The ThunderHawks cruised through their match with Mountain Range, winning all three sets 25-23, 25-8 and 25-8. Prairie View finished the season with a 9-14 overall record and 4-9 in the Class 5A Front Range League, while Mountain Range fell to 1-21 overall and 0-13 in the FRL. Early on, it looked like Mountain Range was going to take the victory. The Mustangs jumped out with an early 6-4 advantage in the first game with an ace from Kaeli Maruyama and a kill by Robyn Yang. After an ace and kill by the ThunderHawks’ Elena Gonzales, the Mustangs reeled off six consecutive points to go up 23-20. But Hailey Kizer answered with a pair of aces to seal the first frame for Prairie View. The ThunderHawks continued to roll on the next set, scoring the final 12 points. Senior Kira Ulibarri scored a pair of aces, while

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Adams 14 School District is one of nine recipients of a RISE Turnaround Grant, according to a statement. Gov. Jared Polis made the announcement late last month. The $900,000 grant will support Adams City High School’s new curriculum that combines academics with career and technical education. The statement said The Academies at ACHS will enable students to get an understanding of the application of knowledge and real-world situations to career pathways of their choosing. ACHS will offer four career and technical education-themed academies, including an academy of architecture, construction, engineering, and design; an academy of digital information and technology; an academy of health professions and sciences; and an academy of business and entrepreneurship. The projected start date is in the fall of 2023. “I am ecstatic that Adams 14 received the RISE Turnaround Grant,” said Ronald Hruby, the district’s director of career and technology education, in a statement. “With this grant, students will not only experiMountain Range’s Maddison Eliason goes up for a kill against Prairie View’s SEE VOLLEYBALL, P7 PHOTOS BY JONATHAN MANESS Jenna Sheley (10) and Elena Gonzales (13). ence learning through real-life experience, but we can also provide current industry-level equipment and materiis required to follow based on the By Ellis Arnold als tocounty deliver hands-on instruction.” A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at severity of a county’s local virus spread. Gov. Polis began the Rise fund two Colorado Community Media Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent years ago address and The dialtogrew out oflearning the state’s safer-atchallenges because of came CO- after weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate As Denver metro counties continue tohealth home order — the policy that VID-19. other states, that was largely reversed, NAEP results released inch closer to local stay-at-home orders the statewide stay-at-home order this BY JASON GONZALES was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Pueblo, types and Lake becauserates other states lost eventhan Monday provide the most CHALKBEAT COLORADO City’s test positivity under Colorado’s system of coronavirus- “From springMontrose and allowedtonumerous of Brighton and Commerce were both higher County to Adams County, we are makmore ground. detailed and authoritative acrelated restrictions, the state announced businesses to reopen. 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have that all Colorado students The learning loss from 2019 Colorado students posted the counting yet,ofwith comingindooring sure a new level rules data that prohibits The state recently switched to color died from COVID-19 related issues. To limit theNational spread ofAssessCOVID-19, from have access to a great education,” Gov. to 2022 on the lowest scores in more thanhealth a a representative set of studining and personal gatherings — a Polisidentifiers levels blue, yellow at least 15 that prohibits indoor and dents said in a—statement. “As aand lifelong ment of Educational Progress, decade oncounties the test moved knownto astighter restrictions nationwide and allowing change that applies to the majority of the orange rather than numbered levels — to advocate for innovation and excellence personal gatherings. “the nation’s report card,” with known as NAEP, points to the for comparisons across states area and many counties inin education, avoid confusion. Nov. 17, we levelare red I am Until proud that devastating impact the pandem- andDenver the steepest declines in middle somemetro cities. otherresults regions. are appalling and putting meant a stay-at-home order.fiNow, level Colorado students rst, supic has had on the education of school math and with His“The our schools we know The state’s COVID-19 dial, which hasporting red — “severe risk”because — is the secondchildren in almost every pocket unacceptable,” panic students losing the most U.S. Secretary Belen Wardof Education of ColoradoPhoto and theby nation. ground. And while Colorado been in effectMiguel since September, is the setthat our kids are the best investment Cardona we can make in the future of our While research has already students posted better reading of different levels of restrictions that each Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2 state.” shown that academic progress scores than did students in 27 SEE MATH, P5

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