School Information :: In the Press
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2009 - Boulder Valley Schools - Top 100 - Lafayette, A wonderful sense of Community
Please take a moment and read the article under EDUCATION in the 2009 Business Directory and Community Guide. It highlights the Boulder Valley School District, Lafayette Schools, Dr. Hultgren and the Lafayette Community! Click here to read.
BVSD - Congratulations Destination ImagiNation!
May 29, 2008
Students from Lafayette Elementary have been doing something right! They have learned how to work as a team, write a script, build props and put on a skit that wowed the judges at the State Destination ImagiNation Competition in Denver in April. All the long hours of hard work paid off for them as they headed to the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals May 20-24 in Knoxville, TN. The seven-member team, HAIRlarious, tied for 20th place out of 80 teams in their division. It was a wonderful learning experience for the entire team.
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Lafayette News - "Principal honored with national award" - Lafayette Elementary’s Hultgren has reason to celebrate
March 19, 2008
Despite winning the 2008 National Distinguished Principals honor for Colorado, Lafayette Elementary principal Holly Hultgren isn’t taking sole credit for the distinction.
“It’s been really fun to share the honor, I’m trying not to have the spotlight on me, but the school, the kids and the community,” Hultgren said this week. “It’s a wonderful spotlight on Lafayette Elementary.”
On March 13, Hultgren received notice she had secured the award, which is only given out by National Association of Elementary School Principals to one principal in each state, and the District of Columbia.
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CHN Online - "The Lafayette Link"
January 16, 2008
Communication is the key to any good, lasting relationship. And, in the city of Lafayette, this theory applies not only to one-on-one relationships, but also relationships between schools.
Centaurus High School and Angevine Middle School have been working over the past few years to create a cooperative effort for students interested in Centaurus’ pre-engineering program.
The program, which seeks to help students get on the right path toward a career in engineering, is still in its early stages. So, it is actually quite fitting that the administrators behind the cooperative effort are themselves new to the area.
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Lafeyette News - "On Display" - Student Photographers Recognized in Art Show
January, 2008
Lafayette Elementary Schools' 4th and 5th grade photography club held a student photo show at Mojo's coffee house, Sunday January 13th... ...The artwork being displayed will remain at Mojo's through the end of January.
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Daily Camera - BVSD schools No. 2 in state rankings
December 5, 2007
Lafayette Elementary just got another boost in its efforts to improve its image.
The school now is rated "high" by the state, up from "average" a year ago. The rating improvement follows the school adding a talented-and-gifted focus and seeing steady enrollment increases.
"We're trying to pass the word to all the neighbors that it's such an awesome school," said Amy Serbousek, who has three children at Lafayette Elementary and is the PTA president. "Now we have the backing of the rating. We can say, 'Look at this great school. It's getting better all the time.'"
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Daily Camera - BVSD elementaries get counselors
October 21, 2007
At recess, Boulder Valley counselor Justin Pacheck is on the playground looking for students by themselves or fighting instead of playing.
He recently pushed a girl in a wheelchair so she could join in a game with her Lafayette Elementary fifth-grade classmates instead of watching from the side. He also talks one-on-one with students struggling to fit in, those bullying classmates and "anything else that comes up."
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Daily Camera - BVSD Enrollment Up
September 15, 2007
The Boulder Valley School District's enrollment is in an upswing, with about a 300-student increase counted so far
this school year.
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Lafayette News - Lacing 'Em Up
May 22, 2007
Lafayette Elementary students out in force for spring training club. The emphasis is having fun, the point is getting kids in shape.
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Lafayette News - 10 Year Old PTA Member Meets Governor
April 11, 2007
Tyger Roch said he wasn’t nervous when he spoke before Gov. Bill Ritter at an event in February.
Anyone who has spent time around the 10-year-old Lafayette resident would believe him.
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Lafayette News - Benefit for Lafayette family is 'Sweet'
April 16, 2007
Members of a Lafayette family may have felt helpless after a fire in January destroyed their house and vehicle. But help arrived last week from their school community.
...The schools last week co-sponsored "Sweets, Sounds & More", a benefit for the family that reportedly raised about $6,000...
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Daily Camera - School to start in mid-Aug.
January 24, 2007
Those planning late-summer vacations are on notice: School will start in the middle of August.
The Boulder Valley school board Tuesday voted 5-2, with Jean Paxton and Patti Smith dissenting, to start a week earlier so the fall semester ends before the holiday break.
Many parents opposed to the change said they want the start of school pushed until after Labor Day. Others said the decision will cut into family vacation time or that it's too hot in the buildings in August.
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Daily Camera - Lafayette school aids family displaced by fire
January 18, 2007
Sylvia de la Cruz had just gone to bed around midnight a week ago when one of her children, watching snow out the
window, saw flames.
Through a translator, she said her husband, Roberto Jimenez, tried to douse the fire with water from the kitchen sink. Realizing it was spreading too fast, they used a window to get their five children out. De la Cruz remembers frantically trying to wake one son while cradling her 4-month-old.
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Daily Camera - State rating boost reflects 'exciting time for Centaurus'
December 6, 2006
Centaurus High School junior LeShaun Brekken recently made jellyfish genes glow in her biotechnology class.
With aspirations to be an engineer, she said the Lafayette school's pre-engineering program was a perfect fit. She doesn't get why her school is sometimes dismissed as "super sucky" by outsiders.
"It's awesome here," she said.
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Lafayette News - Going Beyond GAMES
November 11, 2006
Lafayette Elementary School fourth and fifth-grade girls are taking advantage of a rare opportunity allowing them to look through the eyes of scientists during GAMES or Girls At the Museum Exploring Science program, a partnership between the elementary school and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder.
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Lafayette News - Big Man on Campus
November 2, 2006
NFL lineman Matt McChesney visits Lafayette Elementary.
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Daily Camera - Homework or busywork?
September 25, 2006
There are horror stories of young children buried by hours of work, with frustrated parents saying family time has been replaced by never-ending assignments. On the other side are educators who say homework serves a valuable purpose and improves achievement.
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Newsweek - The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon?
September 11, 2006
This last September a feature article on first grade education was published in Newsweek. Lafayette Elementary and Dr. Hultgren were featured in this article!
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Daily Camera - In Lafayette, a musician reaches out to children
February 17, 2006
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
That African proverb is how John Meere, Lafayette Elementary School's new music teacher, sums up his philosophy when introducing himself to parents. His class, parents tell the principal, makes them wish they could go back to school.
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Daily Camera - Kids' MLK dream a reality
January 17, 2006
Monday morning, about 300 people gathered at City Hall for Lafayette's inaugural March for Peace. As snow began to flurry, the crowd — a couple of blocks deep — moved down South Public Road toward the elementary school, carrying signs and chanting for harmony among the human race.
"The people were so impassioned," said march volunteer Lindsay Jones, 19.
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Daily Camera - Students on board with chess
November 27, 2005
Through Justin Pruess' eyes, chess is not just a game of strategy. It's an animated battle in which the pieces come to life in a King Arthur-like wonderland.
"I see it as a fight between two castles," said the Lafayette Elementary School second-grader. "It's not like a regular game."
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Daily Camera - Officials say best schools in Lafayette
November 18, 2005
Lafayette schools have a message for those buying homes in east county: You don't have to look outside the town to find the best schools.
Lafayette Elementary on Thursday presented a real-estate brunch to encourage agents to promote the school. Lafayette's Ryan Elementary made a similar presentation in the spring, with the other Lafayette schools planning to host similar events before the end of the school year.
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