Colorado Springs School District 11 is proud to announce that Palmer High School has been listed by The Washington Post as one of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. America’s Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through...

Latinitas Hosts College Chica Conference San Antonio 10 Years Publishing the First Hispanic Girls Magazine: Latinitas Focuses on “El Futuro”    The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund concluded in 2009 that 41 percent...

 Otero Junior College, in cooperation with the OJC Foundation, has developed a premiere agriculture scholarship which is available to incoming OJC freshmen and sophomore students entering into one of OJC’s agricultural sciences courses of...

Otero Junior College will host its second Discovery Day event of the year on Wednesday, April 3 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the OJC campus. The event will begin at 9 a.m. in the college’s new Learning Commons center, located in Wheeler Hall.   According...

House Bill 1211 passes House Education Committee   Today, state Rep. Clarice Navarro’s bipartisan bill to strengthen assistance for Colorado’s English language learners passed the House Education Committee. House Bill 1211 better...

Five college vice presidents from the Jiangsu Province of China visited Otero Junior College on March 5 as a part of a 17-week fellowship developed by the United Education Alliance in partnership with the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.   The...

Kathleen Ryan LONGMONT, Colo. – Snow is still on the ground in much of Colorado, and for some school districts, spring break hasn’t started yet. Nonetheless, educators say it’s not too early to start thinking about summer camp...

OJC students receive Rising Star Awards    Two Otero Junior College students will be presented with Rising Star awards by the Colorado Community College State Student Advisory Council at a luncheon on April 9 at Front Range Community College...

A panel discussion at the Library of Congress on April 25 will explore how different native groups in Mesoamerica, from the 16th to 18th centuries, creatively responded to Christian evangelization. “Indigenous Translations of Christianity...

 The 57th annual Otero Arts Festival invites all artists grades 7-12 to participate in a juried art festival April 2-4 at McDivitt Center on the Otero Junior College campus. Entries will be accepted on Friday, March 29 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m....

Scholarship opportunities at Otero Junior College April 15 deadline nears for most applications   Within three months Pomp and Circumstances, the traditional graduation march, will be echoing in the hallways of high schools across the region,...

Camp Registration is Now Open! Summer is the perfect time to go to space!  The Challenger Learning Center of Colorado has now opened general registration for the 2013 summer camp season.   Price discounts are available if you...

 Students from art, psychology, chemistry, geography, education, government, mathematics  and more, will present their scholarly research during the Adams State University sixth annual Student Scholar Days. Presentations will be held all day...

24 students compete in Swallow Hill Music’s  5th annual Young Songwriters Competition.   Judges Esme Patterson, Chris “Citrus” Sauthoff and Jen Lapinski give  feedback during a live performance on April 26.   For the...

On Tuesday, March 26 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Otero Junior College will launch the first of a new series of presentations called “Vocational Voyages” in Macdonald hall room 120. The series will expose students to a range of possible careers...

On consecutive days late last month, the Mexican education system was jolted by a pair of watershed events. On February 25, President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law the country’s most significant education reform in modern history,...

School District 11 is proud to announce that Lincoln Elementary School Principal Shirley Stevens has been selected as one of the three Colorado finalists for the prestigious 2013 National Distinguished Principal (NDP) award. The National Association...

Students at Otero Junior College will go on spring break from Monday, March 18 through Friday, March 22. They will return to classes on Monday, March 25. The college’s Spring Break coincides with area K-12 school districts.   While classes...

The President’s Leadership Program (PLP) is in its inaugural year at Otero Junior College.  The Foundation will be underwriting a minimum of 10 $1,000 scholarships for the program awarded to scholars on a competitive basis. Scholarship applications...

School District 11 is proud to announce that students from Palmer High School’s Mock Trial Team took first in state, defeating a team from Denver’s Colorado Academy, in the championship round on Saturday night at the Colorado Bar Association...

School District 11 is proud to announce that Queen Palmer Elementary School has received the TAP Ambassador Award, which comes with a financial prize of $5,000.  The award honors a TAP school that has gone beyond its campus to represent the...

Center High School Teacher Recommended by Former Astronaut; will be Honored at Space Foundation’s 29th National Space Symposium COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 7, 2013) — Daniel R. Newmyer, a science and math teacher for Center...

 Santa Clause and standardized tests When I was a little girl I believed that a fat bearded man climbed down my chimney and delivered my dreams wrapped in red and green paper under our family Christmas tree. When I was grown and knew the truth,...

  This tax season, Otero Junior College has been one of 13 Colorado colleges with sites to help prepare tax returns for free for lower-income families in Colorado. The program, known as Tax Help Colorado, provides families with annual household...