Boulder pleads for parent helpers

Boulder Valley is among many Colorado districts trying to beef up its ranks of unpaid parent volunteers. Read the Daily Camera story here. Principals in the spring had to cut 2.25 percent from their budgets, leaving the same amount of work to be done with fewer resources.

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