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.

From left: Second year Boulder TEC students in the construction program Evan Buchman and Lucas Geerts, demonstrating the use of proper personal protective equipment for a construction site, cut two by fours into pieces for the first year students’ picnic table project, in this file photo. Boulder Valley School District is seeking to annex its Education Center property into Boulder, as well as to add a modular home factory that would give students hands-on experience and provide homes for Habitat for Humanity projects. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

BVSD school board signs off on modular factory agreement

December 14, 2022 at 11:43 a.m.

The Boulder Valley school board on Tuesday approved an intergovernmental agreement with Boulder that covers building and operating a modular home factory at the Education Center.

LONGMONT, CO – NOVEMBER 17:Westview Middle School seventh grader Alexis Bustillos, left, transports a ring from one container to another during Teacher Danny Hernandez’s Wired Creativity Class in Longmont on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Longmont students build carnival games in tech class

November 26, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

Westview Middle School students are designing a hot wheels track with a rotating middle section, a basketball version of the classic skee ball and a fishing game using recycled robotics...

Boulder police arrest 28-year-old man on suspicion of stealing fire truck

October 5, 2022 at 1:36 p.m.

Boulder police arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of stealing a fire truck in the early morning hours Sunday while firefighters were helping with a medical call in downtown Boulder.

A Longmont Police patch is seen on the uniform of one of their officers. (File Photo)

Teen with fake gun prompts Longmont High lockdown

September 14, 2022 at 3:48 p.m.

Longmont High School was placed on lockdown and student dismissal delayed Wednesday afternoon in response to a report of a female student with a gun, according to Longmont police.

Boulder High teacher Dan Zahner died in a plane crash last week.
(Photo courtesy of Rebecca Coon)

Boulder High teacher Dan Zahner remembered as “creative, kind, generous”

August 1, 2022 at 9:31 p.m.

A 23-year teaching veteran, Dan Zahner spent the past 18 years at Boulder High. He was instrumental in the creation of Boulder High鈥檚 shop, the Millennium Lab, along with starting...

Rifles are lined up for sale at Firing-Line in Aurora, Colorado, which bills itself as Colorado's largest gun shop, in a 2012 file photo. After the shootings in Newtown, Conn., GE Capital has cut ties with firearms retailers. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners sues Superior over town’s new ban on semi-automatic rifles

July 8, 2022 at 8:33 a.m.

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and several national gun-rights groups are suing Superior over the town's new stricter and more comprehensive gun safety laws and, in turn, challenging a Colorado law...

First-graders eat lunch at Eisenhower Elementary School in Boulder on March 28, 2022. The federal funding for the universal free school lunch program wasn't renewed so there is now a state effort to try and provide the funding. (Photo by Matthew Jonas/Daily Camera)

BVSD advocates to keep free school meals for all

March 30, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

"It seems shortsighted to take away what's been an incredibly beneficial program."

From left to right: Centaurus High junior Anne Spence, Public Achievement Assistant Director Soraya Latiff, Public Achievement Director Charla Agnoletti and Centaurus junior Andrea Montiel debrief on Friday in the school library after a community presentation earlier in the week. The students are asking the Boulder Valley School District to create an ethnic studies class.
(Amy Bounds/Staff Writer)

Centaurus High students advocate for ethnic studies class

March 20, 2022 at 4:27 p.m.

A group of Lafayette students first proposed an ethnic studies class as seventh graders, but didn't have enough support to make the class happen. Now juniors at Centaurus High, they...

Boulder Valley School District school bus

Peak to Peak students win 1st, 2nd place in congressional app contest

January 29, 2022 at 8:30 a.m.

Aditya Nandyal first learned about the idea of an ecological footprint in his Advanced Placement Human Geography class, but wanted to know more about how to step more lightly on...

Smoke rises from the snow covered remains of homes destroyed in the Marshall Fire on the 2000 Block of Andrew Drive in Superior on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Residents of Superior were allowed to return to some of the areas that were evacuated during the fire. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

BVSD schools in Marshall fire area to open as planned Wednesday

January 2, 2022 at 8:37 p.m.

The Boulder Valley School District announced Sunday that classes will resume at all schools as planned after winter break on Wednesday, including those in areas impacted by the Marshall fire.

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BVSD school board signs off on modular factory agreement

Longmont students build carnival games in tech class

Boulder police arrest 28-year-old man on suspicion of stealing fire truck

Teen with fake gun prompts Longmont High lockdown

Boulder High teacher Dan Zahner remembered as “creative, kind, generous”

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners sues Superior over town’s new ban on semi-automatic rifles

BVSD advocates to keep free school meals for all

Centaurus High students advocate for ethnic studies class

Peak to Peak students win 1st, 2nd place in congressional app contest

BVSD schools in Marshall fire area to open as planned Wednesday