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Superintendent reports ICE activity in Thornton area; board hears attendance drops, hiring and steep budget pressures
Summary
Superintendent reported ICE activity near several schools, described a 4–5% attendance drop at some sites, and outlined hiring needs and a potential $30 million budget shortfall driven by declining enrollment, compensation pressures and the end of federal COVID relief funds.
Superintendent provided an update Feb. 5 to the Adams 12 Five Star Schools board saying ice-related immigration enforcement activity occurred in parts of the district and that the district was responding with communications, school-level coordination and supports for affected families.
He said Hillcrest Elementary, STEM Launch and Federal Heights Elementary were the three schools most affected by the events described that day. The superintendent said district staff believe a parent of a second-grade student at Hillcrest may have been taken into custody and that, to the district’s knowledge, the child was in the care of a neighbor or a trusted adult. He emphasized the…
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