School will start with kindergarten and first grade

The Colorado Charter School Institute’s board of directors unanimously approved an application for a charter school on the Ute Mountain Ute reservation Tuesday afternoon.

The board will work with the team behind the new school, the Kwiyagat (Bear) Community Academy, to finalize a contract between the two entities.

“The whole team is really excited,” Tina King-Washington, education director for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, said in a phone interview with The Journal after the vote.

King-Washington said there is more work to do, but it will be “more exciting” now that the school has been approved.

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