Monday, December 15, 2008

Super School News

Our very own students will be featured on Rocky Mountain PBS "Super School Newscast." Mrs. Liggins, our technology specialist, works with our 5th grade students to conduct the morning announcements on our own television channel here at Sunrise each day. She and our broadcasters were selected to give a report about our school and some of the great things we do here. I hope you'll be able to tune in and catch our broadcast. It will be aired on channel 6 at the following dates/times:
Dec. 21/ 10:25 am, Dec. 22/4:55 pm, Dec. 23/2:55 pm, Dec. 24/10:55, Dec. 26/4:55 pm and Dec. 27/2:55 pm.

Monday, December 8, 2008

School Accountability Reports

Beginning Dec. 9, School Accountability Reports will be available online on the Colorado Department of Education’s Web site, www.cde.state.co.us or you can link to it via Cherry Creek School District’s Web site at www.cherrycreekschools.org.

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) annually issues the School Accountability Reports, also known as SARS or School Report Cards, for each school in the state. They include information about the school's academic performance, CSAP results, safety and discipline incidents, student/teacher ratio, teacher qualifications and how taxpayer dollars are spent.

CDE gives each school a rating of either Unsatisfactory Low, Average, High or Excellent. More than 60 percent of Cherry Creek Schools were rated Excellent or High. No school in the Cherry Creek School District has ever received a Low or Unsatisfactory rating.In prior years the reports were widely available as a printed hard copy. This year, the primary method of distribution for the reports is electronic. If you would like a hard copy, you can print it from the Web site or ask one of us in the Sunrise front office to do so.