Amy Bounds

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Amy Bounds

Amy Bounds covers K-12 education for the Daily Camera and Times-Call, plus some early childhood and local government stories. She first joined the Times-Call in 1997 after graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. She's lived in Colorado since she was 12, growing up in Littleton. When not writing, she's a marching band mom, rescue dog mom and unpaid Uber driver for her teen sons.

Heatherwood Elementary teacher Chris Newby, right, and Creekside Elementary teacher Paul Lealman hold signs showing support for Superintendent Bruce Messinger during a Boulder Valley School District board meeting on May 9. The school board fired Messinger that night following a complained filed by Assistant Superintendent Leslie Arnold, who this week reached a settlement with the district to leave her job.

Boulder Valley schools to pay $260K settlement to administrator who got superintendent fired

July 27, 2017 at 2:11 p.m.

Leslie Arnold, an assistant superintendent with Boulder Valley schools, negotiated a settlement of $100,000 plus a year's pay from the district and will leave her job after filing the complaint...

Henry Westfall, right, and Atharv Jamdagny practice their violin skills during a fifth-grade instrumental music class at the Bear Creek Elementary School in Boulder in 2015.

Boulder Valley to equalize elementary art, music, PE time in the fall

June 22, 2017 at 3:19 p.m.

Boulder Valley elementary school students will spend an equal amount of time in art, music and physical education next school year as the district continues to work toward a more...

Altona Middle School student Poornima Ramesh runs the slide show from a computer as Julianne Johnston and McKenzie Campbell (not pictured) make a presentation from their group's research with a wild life camera, or "camera trap" at the Boulder County Parks and Open Space offices on Wednesday.

Two Longmont middle schools help Boulder County monitor wildlife cameras

May 13, 2017 at 7:01 p.m.

Students at Longmont's Altona and Longs Peak middle schools are monitoring two of the Boulder County Parks and Open Space wildlife cameras, tracking data, identifying animals and making observations.

Boulder Valley Superintendent Bruce Messinger speaks during the topping off ceremony at Meadowlark School in Erie on Jan. 12.

Boulder Valley schools superintendent Bruce Messinger fired

June 22, 2017 at 3:21 p.m.

Boulder Valley schools superintendent Bruce Messinger was fired Tuesday night after being on paid leave for more than a month while a still secret personnel issue was investigated.

Officials suspect human cause in Boulder’s Sunshine fire

March 24, 2017 at 2:43 p.m.

The fire has scorched 62 acres and is now 50 percent contained, officials said.

CU Boulder campus police notify bomb squad about backpack left outside school building

January 13, 2017 at 2:55 p.m.

University of Colorado police in Boulder late Sunday surrounded a backpack left outside a school building and called for the Boulder County bomb squad to approach it.

66-year-old Longmont man killed in motorcycle crash

March 30, 2017 at 5:01 p.m.

A 66-year-old Longmont man died this afternoon at Longmont United Hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Main Street.

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Boulder Valley schools to pay $260K settlement to administrator who got superintendent fired

Boulder Valley to equalize elementary art, music, PE time in the fall

Two Longmont middle schools help Boulder County monitor wildlife cameras

Boulder Valley schools superintendent Bruce Messinger fired

Officials suspect human cause in Boulder’s Sunshine fire

CU Boulder campus police notify bomb squad about backpack left outside school building

66-year-old Longmont man killed in motorcycle crash