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Hard Times for Recess
By David Bornstein on April 4, 2011

‘Safe Routes’ lure kids to walk, bike to school
By Rebecca Jones on June 14, 2010

School Hopes 'Recess Coach' Will Pay Off in Classroom
ABC News/Nightline, By T.J. Winick and Karson Yiu

Culinary students revamp lunchrooms, enliven classes
In Denver Times, By Rebecca Jones, May 10, 2010

Our boys are falling behind in education
The Denver Post, By Dottie Lamm, April 18, 2010

AXL Academy - An Interview with Audra Philippon
A Better Education, January 22, 2010

National Center for Safe Routes to School Announces Spring 2010
Mini-grant Recipients
Safe Routes, December 8, 2009

Film Crew Captures Essence of Excellence: A documentary film crew is visiting King Middle School this week, reminding the students and staff that what they do every day is considered special on the national level.
Read the full article in the Portland Press Herald.

ELS was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Tuesday, November 3rd. Learning Matters, a television production company that partners with PBS, produced the eight-minute piece which explores the role of federal stimulus funds on the Rochester City School District.
Click here to view the segment.

Forty-Five Percent of Seniors at The Springfield Renaissance School Earn Full-Tuition College Scholarship: Percentage of Black and Hispanic Scholarship Recipients is Nearly Five Times the State Average.
Read the full press release here.

Results Pave the Way for Dramatic Growth at Expeditionary Learning Schools: Numbers are Up Significantly in 2009-2010 School Year.
Read the full press release here.

"Finding True North: A Portrait of Two Schools in Rochester, New York" by Libby Woodfin, our Senior Staff Writer, has been published in the journal "Schools: Studies in Education" (Fall 2009).
Read the full article here.

President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spent an afternoon at Capital City Public Charter School. "This kind of innovative school...is an example of how all our schools should be," President Obama said. Read more in the press release and in the White House blog.

Local Schools Join Healthy Meals Revolution
Stapleton Front Porch, October 2009

Genders Split Up at More Schools
Denver Post, May 31, 2008

Aurora Charter School Draws Names for Students
CBS Denver, March 6, 2008

Same Sex Classrooms
Rocky Mountain PBS, Colorado State of Mind, March 14, 2008

Parents Clamor for Same-Sex Classrooms
KMGH Denver’s Channel 7, March 6, 2008

Aurora Charter School Draws Names for Students
CBS News 4, March 6, 2008

Lottery Picks Kids for Same-Sex Classrooms at Charter School
Rocky Mountain News, March 6, 2008

Charters Forcing a Balancing Act
Aurora Sentinel, March 5, 2008

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