Senior Education Department Officials to Visit Gateway High School

NEWS RELEASE # 21
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 14, 2012

 

Senior Education Department Officials to Visit Gateway High School

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Deb Delisle and David Esquith, director of the Office of Safe and Healthy Students, will visit Gateway High School on Friday, September 14, as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s third annual back-to-school bus tour. Delisle and Esquith will participate in a discussion with school and district educators on school safety and creating a positive learning climate for all students. 

Gateway High School
1300 South Sable Boulevard
Aurora, Colorado 80012
Friday, September 14
12:30 pm 

Delisle and Esquith will give closing remarks at a meeting about the Aurora Public Schools’ Recovery Plan, school climate and safety.  The plan was developed in response to the July 20 tragedy at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, which had a direct impact on many Gateway students, staff and families, and included the death of a 2012 Gateway graduate. Delisle and Esquith also will visit the roadside memorial near the site of the shooting on their way to the school, at approximately 11:30 a.m.  

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