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2005 - 2006 News and Events
 

State rates Tech Academy 'excellent'
Longtime District 70 Principal Kent Muckel has always touted the excellent education offered at the Pueblo Technical Academy.

Now, he has the hardware to back it up.

The Colorado 2006 School Accountability Reports, which were released Tuesday, showed that the Tech Academy is now among the top-rated schools in the state after it received an "excellent" rating from the Colorado Department of Education.

The Connect School, a District 70 charter middle school, also received an excellent rating.

"Ever since the accountability reports came out, we have maintained a ‘high’ rating," Muckel said Tuesday. "But we've been inching closer and closer to that excellent rating and we finally got it this year."

The excellent rating is the highest rating a school can get on the annual report cards that are based on how well a school performs on the Colorado Student Assessment Program exams. The high school report cards also factor in the 11th-grade ACT scores.

Schools are rated excellent, high, average, low, or unsatisfactory.

Last year, the Technical Academy was 0.02 points away from attaining an excellent rating.

What changed this year was "our juniors scored really well on the ACT test and that helped put us over the edge," said Muckel.

The Tech Academy's juniors scored a 22.1 composite average on the ACT.

For Muckel, attaining the excellent rating this year is extra special since it will be his last as principal of the technical-based school.

Posted: Thu, March 01, 2007 at 09:58 AM - rmurillo

Integrated Project Begins
 
Students at the Tech Academy began the 06/07 school-wide integrated project. This year teams of four will tackle the issue of global warming, its causes, affects, and possible solutions.
 

Tech Academy Moves to the Baxter Learning and Technology Center
 
The Pueblo Technical Academy recently moved to its new home at 301 28th Lane in Pueblo. The building, which had formerly been a District 70 elementary school, was remodeled and renovated to meet the needs of the Pueblo Technical Academy and several other Pueblo School District 70 entities. The Academy shares the newly named Baxter Learning and Technology Center with the District 70 Information Technology Department and the Department
of Instruction's Staff Development Center.
Tech Academy students are able to take advantage of the proximity of the technology department and department of instruction training center by completing a technology internship that allows them to work side by side with professionals in the computer, network, and educational technology fields. This partnership also allows district staff an insight into the daily use of educational technology by students and teachers in the high school.

 
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