Powell

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TeleTown Hall: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. LPS Superintendent Brian Ewert is taking his roadshow to the community at large! We will reach out to community members via phone with an invitation to join our TeleTown Hall on October 7.  A link will also be available if you would like to join this event on your computer rather than on your phone. You will have the opportunity to ask Mr. Ewert questions during this live event. Topics will include: Budget concerns and the debt-free schools mill levy override How the school year is going New school boundaries Ongoing bond projects Info regarding registering a cell phone for the event and a link to join the event on your computer coming soon!

Please join LPS Superintendent Brian Ewert for a virtual update on the state of LPS. Topics will include: Budget concerns and the debt-free schools mill levy override How the school year is going New school boundaries Ongoing bond projects Mr. Ewert is taking his community roadshow virtual. Each school community will be invited to hear him present and ask him questions. While parts of the conversations may be geared toward the schools for that particular time, anyone can watch any of the presentations and ask questions. Access the links below to watch the live feeds and submit questions. Recordings with Closed Captioning in both English and Spanish will be available a few days following the live event. To access Closed Captioning, start the video, click on the CC box at the bottom right and then select either English or Spanish. Learn More: Budget Matter$ Goddard Middle School 9/14/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH    email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Highland/Franklin elementary schools Village North/Village Highland Preschools 9/14/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH  email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us TOPS/Options/Voyager/ NOVA/Transition Services 9/16/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH  email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Powell Middle School 9//16/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH  email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Newton Middle School 9/21/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Hopkins/Twain 9/21/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Littleton Prep/Academy 9/22/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Centennial/Wilder 9/22/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Euclid 9/23/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Littleton High 9/23/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Field/Sandburg 9/28/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Arapahoe High 9/29/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us East/Moody 9/29/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Peabody/Lenski 9/30/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Runyon 10/1/2020, 5:00 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us Heritage High 10/1/2020, 6:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE email questions to: Questions@lps.k12.co.us

Reminder: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 is a PLC Late Start Day. All schools will begin one hour later, and all school buses will run one hour later. PLC Late Starts are every Wednesday throughout the school year for all learning models, excluding preschools.

Passage of a local mill levy is the only way to save what the community values most in LPS During its regularly scheduled meeting on August 13, 2020, the LPS Board of Education voted to move forward with plans to place a mill levy override on the November 2020 ballot. Throughout the summer, the Board studied various options available to fill the anticipated ongoing $12 million budget gap LPS will face caused by the COVID-19 economic downturn in Colorado and due to the State of Colorado’s chronic inability to adequately fund its public schools. Colorado has shortchanged LPS more than $156 million over the past decade, which has placed tremendous and increasing pressure on the district’s budget. No state solutions are in sight. If local solutions are not found, people and programs – the very parts of our schools that the LPS community values most – will face drastic cuts for the 2021–2022 school year.  The Board began exploring local solutions last January. After making $4.2 million in cuts for the 2020–2021 school year, and projected cuts of $12 million for 2021–2022 (and beyond) looming, the LPS Board recognized that these budget cuts will negatively impact the academic excellence this community value and expects of LPS: Continuing to attract and retain quality teachers Maintaining school counseling for mental health and suicide prevention Providing career, technology and skilled trades classes that provide students with real world job skills such as health care, skilled trades and computer science As presented to the Board of Education at their August 13, 2020 meeting, the local mill levy override would raise $12 million to fill the $12 million state funding gap for the 2021–2022 school and in the years ahead. The money would be used to keep the teachers, academic programs (including those in the skilled trades), mental health support and physical safety measures that are currently in place.  “These are extreme circumstances; COVID has placed an additional strain on many of our families and on our district’s budget. But with Colorado’s inability to adequately fund its public schools, we are facing truly catastrophic cuts. While this is a hard time to have to do this, we are a public school district. So we need to at least ask the public and let them decide,” said Board of Education President Jack Reutzel. “We have exhausted all other options. A local mill levy override would give us the chance to save the things our community values the most – the very people and programs that makes Littleton Public Schools so special, which in turn would allow us to keep providing our community with an outstanding education.”  Ballot Initiative and LPS Budget Info

​Studio 5 School Portraits is returning to Powell for student picture retakes on Monday, September 28th, and Tuesday, September 29th.  Click here for the flyer to order photo packages online. 

Click here to view the Sept 22nd Points of Pride.

The Prowl yearbook needs your photos. I have attached FOUR flyers with the details. We'd love candid shots of your child's hobbies, pets, hidden talents, and distance day workspaces at home.  There are two easy ways to share photos with the yearbook staff this year. There's a free Herff Jones app for your phone that can be downloaded OR you may upload digital photos via your computer to  www.hjeshare.com. All you need is the school code: 12449.  Also, stay tuned for other photo topics we will request throughout the year.  If you have any questions, please email Yvette Manculich, the Yearbook Adviser at: ymanculich@lps.k12.co.us. Thank you for helping The Prowl yearbook staff create another award-winning publication!