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  • The culture of fear
    Editor's note: This is cross-posted from the "Failing Schools" blog. One of the hardest things about this project, and about offering any kind of counter-narrative to the “Public schools suck/Teachers are terrible/If only we could [insert gimmick here] our problems would be solved!” party line, is dealing with the culture of fear that exists i […]
    Sabrina Stevens Shupe
  • From the publisher: A basic lesson, relearned
    Denver school board member Andrea Merida has been caught up in a maelstrom since Friday, when The Denver Post broke a story that she has been paid $5,000 since May by Andrew Romanoff’s U.S. Senate campaign. Merida, in her position as a board member, has been an aggressive critic of a pension refinance deal orchestrated by current Superintendent Tom Boasberg […]
    Alan Gottlieb
  • Newsflash: Merida resigning from Romanoff campaign
    Denver school board member Andrea Merida is resigning from her consultant position with Andrew Romanoff's campaign for U.S. Senate. She said she will remain as a volunteer "at least for now." Her decision comes in the wake of news last Friday that she has been on Romanoff's payroll since May. She did not disclose that fact to the board, D […]
    Alan Gottlieb
  • Transparency, ethics, duty: A board member’s view
    Editor's note: Mary Seawell is an at-large member of the Denver Board of Education. In the wake of the Denver Post article exposing Andrea Merida for being paid by Andrew Romanoff while she actively criticized U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet from her position on the school board, I have struggled to understand the current state of the DPS Board of Education. I […]
    Mary Seawell
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Colorado makes R2T finalist list »

Colorado makes R2T finalist list

Colorado, 17 other states and the District of Columbia are the finalists in the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition,...

Jul 27 2010 / Capitol News, Top News / 2 comments / Read More »

Duncan: Pace of reform “stunning” »

Duncan: Pace of reform “stunning”

Education Secretary Arne Duncan used Tuesday’s unveiling of the Race to the Top finalists to air his views on where education reform is heading...

Jul 27 2010 / Capitol News, Top News / 1 comment / Read More »

Economy forces states to scale back scholarships »

Economy forces states to scale back scholarships

Education Week explores the devastating impact of states' budget crises on their merit-based college scholarship programs...

Jul 27 2010 / Top News / 1 comment / Read More »

CDE: Colo. standards are rigorous as common core »

CDE: Colo. standards are rigorous as common core

The State Board of Education Wednesday was assured that Colorado’s content standards for language arts and math are as rigorous as the proposed national...

Jul 21 2010 / Capitol News, Top News / 1 comment / Read More »

CCHE wrestles with slicing higher ed pie »

CCHE wrestles with slicing higher ed pie

Colorado colleges and universities are taking a wait-and-see attitude about their newly won ability to seek authority for raising tuition more than 9 percent...

Jul 19 2010 / Capitol News, Top News / No comment / Read More »

Tasty news: DPS back to scratch cooking »

Tasty news: DPS back to scratch cooking

Denver Public Schools is launching a massive effort to revert to old-fashioned scratch cooking in its school kitchens. ...

Jul 18 2010 / Education News, Healthy Schools, Top News / No comment / Read More »

District cuts top $288 million »

District cuts top $288 million

Colorado school districts chopped more than $288 million out of their budgets as they prepared for the 2010-11 school year, according to data compiled...

Jul 15 2010 / Education News, Top News / 2 comments / Read More »

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One-stop budget cuts info center »

One-stop budget cuts info center

Check out Ed News' updated searchable database showing the impact by district of cuts in state education funding in 2010-11, plus the latest news...

Mar 16 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

DPS leads pack in direct-placing teachers »

DPS leads pack in direct-placing teachers

Teachers are placed into schools they didn’t choose – and whose principals didn’t choose them – at a much higher rate in Denver ...

Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Data center: Remediation rates by school »

Data center: Remediation rates by school

How well is your high school or district preparing students for college? Ed News takes a closer look and lets you search for trends over five years...

Feb 22 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »
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