APS Board of Education Executive Session

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 28, 2016

WHAT: APS Board of Education Executive Session
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, 5:30-6 p.m.
WHERE: Conference Room A, Educational Services Center 4, 1085 Peoria Street, Aurora, CO 80011

Aurora Public Schools Board of Education Executive Session

UPDATE: Due to weather conditions, this executive session will be held via teleconference.

On Tuesday, February 2, 2016, the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education is expected to recess into executive session under the authority of C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(b), to receive legal advice regarding contract negotiations impacting enrollment and capacity.

The executive session will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in conference room A at Educational Services Center 4, 1085 Peoria Street, Aurora, CO  80011.

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APS Board of Education Executive Session

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 2016

WHAT: APS Board of Education Executive Session
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, 6-7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dr. Edward and Mrs. Patricia Lord Boardroom of Educational Services Center 4, 1085 Peoria Street, Aurora, CO 80011

Aurora Public Schools Board of Education Executive Session

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education is expected to recess into executive session under the authority of C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(h), to discuss a student matter.

The executive session will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. in Dr. Edward and Mrs. Patricia Lord Boardroom of Educational Services Center 4, 1085 Peoria Street, Aurora, CO 80011.

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APS Board of Education Executive Session

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2016

WHAT: APS Board of Education Executive Session
WHEN: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, 5-6 p.m.
WHERE: APS Professional Learning and Conference Center, 15771 E. 1st Ave., Aurora, CO 80011

Aurora Public Schools Board of Education Executive Session

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, the Aurora Public Schools Board of Education is expected to recess into executive session under the authority C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(b), to receive legal advice specifically related to the superintendent’s contract negotiations and C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(a) to discuss a property acquisition.

The executive session will be held from 5-6 p.m. in the Blanca Peak conference room at the APS Professional Learning and Conference Center, 15771 E. 1st Ave., Aurora, CO 80011.

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AWCPA Students Help Donate More Than 34,000 Servings of Food

                                                                                                                            
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2015 

WHAT: Students Prevent Food Waste at AWCPA
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 2015 at 8:15 a.m. 
WHERE: Aurora West College Preparatory Academy
                 10100 E 13th Ave, Aurora, CO 80010

AWCPA Students Help Donate More Than 34,000 Servings of Food

Aurora West College Preparatory Academy (AWCPA) students are showing EPA regional leaders how they prevent food waste. The student-led CHOICES Club has helped donate more than 34,000 servings of food from their school to homeless shelters and local food banks.

Last summer, the club started an initiative to recover uneaten food from the Breakfast After the Bell program. Breakfast After the Bell provides Colorado students with nutritious breakfast meals.

The CHOICES Club is focused on making AWCPA as sustainable as possible, so when students noticed that uneaten food from the breakfast program was being thrown away, they jumped into action. With support from school staff, the Aurora Public Schools Nutrition Services Department and Division of Finance, the club has been donating to local food banks and homeless shelters thanks to a partnership with a local award-winning organization, We Don’t Waste.

On Tuesday, January 12, the CHOICES Club will show EPA leaders how the program works. Media is invited to see the club in action as well.

The schedule will be as follows:
(8:15 a.m.) Guests arrive
(8:30-9:00 a.m.) Breakfast After the Bell
(9:00-9:20 a.m.) Food is sorted and prepared for donation
(9:30 a.m.) We Don’t Waste Donation pickup
(9:30-9:50 a.m.) Time for interviews 

APS is the first school district in the Denver metro area to sign up as an endorser for EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge (FRC). AWCPA is the first of many schools that Aurora Public Schools hopes will commit to diverting food waste. EPA’s FRC invites organizations to reduce food waste and loss in their communities through outreach, reducing waste in the first place, food donation and composting.

AWCPA students are also current participants of Food-1-1, a new coalition that rescues food from waste in Colorado. This is an evolving collaboration between EPA Region 8 and other federal, state, local, non-profit, and community partners.

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Interested media may contact APS News Media Specialist
Patti Moon at 303-326-2755 for more information