They came, they commented and, perhaps surprisingly, most of them liked it – with caveats. The first of two public comment sessions this week on Denver Public Schools’ turnaround plans for six of its lowest-performing schools drew an overflow audience Monday night at 900 Grant St. More than two dozen parents, teachers, students and community [...]
Updated – A DPS contract attorney counters a union lawyer’s legal opinion by saying three school board members did violate Open Meetings Law
Gov. Bill Ritter Friday expressed confidence that Colorado can win federal Race to the Top funds and said he wasn’t discouraged by the possibility that the state might end up with a smaller grant that originally expected.
Here is where you can download a podcast from the November 12 Hot Lunch talk by Ethan Gray, Vice-President of The Mind Trust.
If Colorado wins the federal Race to the Top competition, the prize may be only $60 to $175 million. (Expanded story)
When is a public meeting not public? Douglas County board meeting today on vouchers might be heard, but not seen, by the public.
It’s probably impossible to have a substantive discussion about 1,348 pages of highly technical academic material in just five and a half hours, but the State Board of Education gave the public a say on all that material Wednesday.
Michelle Pearson, a middle school social studies and language arts teacher in Northglenn is the 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year.
Three months after Stapleton parents filled a gym to demand solutions to their overcrowded schools, a proposal from DPS get a warm reception
Despite being billed by Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration as 4.6 percent, the full impact of cuts to basic state support of K-12 education in 2010-11 is 6.12 percent, Colorado school districts learned Tuesday.
