Colorado-grown carrots, peaches and heirloom tomatoes are on lunch trays at seven Lewis-Palmer School District 38 schools this fall, bought with the district’s first grant from the state’s Local Food Program. D38 received $68,925.50 for food, the most the state’s formula allows, and a further $20,797.26 for stipends to the kitchen staff who serve it. […]
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The State Released Its Preliminary Framework Scoring. Where D38 Earned Its Points.
Colorado’s 2026 preliminary school and district performance ratings, decomposed: how Lewis-Palmer 38 earned 73.2 percent of its points, by grade band and subject, with every local school and The Classical Academy.
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A Monument Academy Graduate Wins a Denver Woman’s Press Club Scholarship
Isabelle Vigueria didn’t apply. A Scholastic medal for the first chapter of her unfinished novel brought the Denver Woman’s Press Club to the Monument Academy graduate with $2,500 for tuition.
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Monument Academy’s Elementary School Made $1 Million. Its High School Lost $579,000.
Monument Academy closed its 2025-26 books with a $288,000 surplus, and the number hides more than it shows. The charter’s elementary campus in Monument earned $1.0 million; its middle school lost $141,000; its high school, with 90 students, lost $579,000. The surplus also depends on a $531,000 credit from a bond refinancing and on federal […]
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School Spotlight: Monument Academy Middle School, Where Logic Is a Requirement
Monument Academy’s East Campus is four-fifths middle school. A look at grades six to eight: Core Knowledge, a required semester of Logic, a year of Latin or Spanish, the elective list, the Lynx in the CCAL, and how a family gets a seat.
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The State Released 2026 Test Scores. Where D38 Finished Among Its Peers.
The state released its 2026 test results on Aug. 19. Adjusted for who each school teaches, the two schools at the extremes of D38 are not the ones the raw table names.
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D38’s Board Sets June Deadlines on Pay and Retention
Lewis-Palmer’s school board adopted seventeen dated goals for 2026-27, two of which give it until June 2027 to find continuing revenue for employee compensation and to lift staff retention to the average of surrounding districts. The board also raised secondary meal prices, admitted a farm to its homeschool program, and pulled a $38,500 school-security design off the consent agenda.
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School Starts Aug. 12 in D38, Aug. 11 at Monument Academy
Lewis-Palmer School District 38 opens to most students on Aug. 12, eighth graders on Aug. 13, and Monument Academy starts its youngest children on Aug. 11. Start dates, bell schedules, bus fees, meal prices and back-to-school events for 2026-27.
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Safety Does Not Set Teacher Pay in El Paso County
Lewis-Palmer D38 and Cheyenne Mountain report almost the same rate of school behavior incidents. Cheyenne Mountain pays its teachers $8,484 more. What separates them is not safety but the size of the override their voters approved.
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Four Million Dollars, Frozen
Lewis-Palmer D38’s voters approved a $4 million override in 1999 and have rejected every operating override since — seven of them. Inflation did the rest. In 2023 the district turned over 27.6% of its teachers, and the reason they gave most often was pay.