Good One

Local radio stations and news outlets were had this morning. Someone sent them all an email that *seemed* legitimate...

It is with great regret that the district must inform our patrons that our CSAP exams must be retaken at the high school level. Over the last several days the district has been in contact with Colorado Department of Education (CDE) over a small fraction of exam booklets that were destroyed during transportation. The district has appealed that the damaged test booklets be waived from being included in the 2007-2008 CSAP results. Unfortunately, CDE has found that this would bring the district in under the required 95% of students to be tested and the appeal was denied.

Academy School District 20 prides itself upon a strong tradition of academic excellence. We believe that the students at Air Academy, Aspen Valley, Discovery Canyon, Liberty, Pine Creek, Rampart and The Classical Academy will rise to meet this setback with a great deal of resilient character and academic integrity.

CDE has agreed to allow an extended testing window of two weeks for the district to complete the exams. This testing window will occur April 7th through April 18th. Over the next few weeks, ninth and tenth grade students will be retaking the exams during their regularly scheduled English classes. Junior and senior English classes will not be affected.

Students were freaking out before officials announced it was an April Fool's joke.