PUEBLO – An emotional five-hour meeting ended Friday with Lawrence Hernandez out of the top job at the charter schools network he founded but still in control of the original Cesar Chavez Academy in Pueblo and its sister high school, Dolores Huerta Preparatory High. But that control will be limited in one aspect – he [...]
The “trailer park” that has popped up on the Auraria campus to handle overcrowding at Metropolitan State College of Denver is symbolic of some much bigger challenges confronting the urban campus. Student numbers are growing, budgets are shrinking, and too many students aren’t succeeding the way they should. Because of these issues, administrators, faculty, alumni, [...]
Earlier versions of this story misidentified a Cesar Chavez Schools Network employee who was placed on paid administrative leave. This version is correct. Pueblo news outlets Thursday were reporting that three leaders at the Cesar Chavez Schools Network have been suspended by board president Dennis Feuerstein. Lawrence Hernandez and his wife Annette, who founded the [...]
Some chairs on stage were empty. But five of the eight expected candidates for Denver Public Schools’ board of education answered questions for more than an hour Wednesday night at Bruce Randolph School in northeast Denver. One candidate even sang. Metro Organizations for People, a community advocacy group, was the host of the candidate forum [...]
“Waiting for Superman” opens in selected cities today. Critics for the most part are giving the education documentary a thumbs-up.
Updated: The Las Vegas school board will vote next Wednesday on a new superintendent. Colorado Education Commissioner Dwight Jones is one of two finalists.
State Education Commissioner Dwight Jones heads to Vegas today to begin the process that could lead to his departure.
The possibility that the Amendment 23 formula itself might drive cuts in state K-12 spending for 2010-11 was raised Monday during a legislative briefing on state revenues and budget prospects.
Hartford, Conn., is the second poorest city in America, in the second wealthiest state in the nation. When Steven Adamowski took over as superintendent in 2006, the district had a four-year graduation rate of 29 percent. Less than a third of the city’s children were learning to read by the end of the third grade. [...]
Updated – U.S. Senate consideration of the proposed DREAM Act was held up today after Democrats failed to break a GOP filibuster.
