Keeping up with the Dunruds
One Denver family’s search for a top-notch education sends them from school to school – sidebar to Advanced kindergarten grows in Denver
Archive for: September, 2010
Jones a finalist for Vegas superintendent
Colorado Education Commissioner Dwight Jones is one of three finalists to run the nation’s fifth-largest school district.
Analysis: Reason to worry about DPS pension
Critics of the Denver Public Schools’ pension financing are right to worry – but they’re focused on the wrong thing. Corrected version.
SBE turns back charter appeal
The State Board of Education has rejected a charter school’s bid to revoke the exclusive chartering authority of the Adams 14 school district.
Opinion video: Youth critique, praise new non-profit
Summit 54, a new non-profit started by an Aspen hedge fund manager, aims to help “academically motivated” eighth graders attending sub-par high schools in Denver and Chicago make it to college and graduate. See this blog post for a detailed description of the program and a conference taking place this week.
Charters at top, bottom of DPS ratings
The number of all Denver schools receiving the lowest rating on the School Performance Framework has dropped by half since 2008
New testing system starts to take shape
State Board of Education members have gotten some interesting news about “electronic” report cards and some disquieting budget news.
Election Data Center 2010
Find out what happened in 2010 races and issues important to education in our Election Data Center.
Union contributions mount up
Political committees affiliated with Colorado teachers’ unions have spent more than $900,000 so far in the 2010 election season.
“Lunch ladies” fight back
School food has been getting bad press lately but some argue it’s still the best meal lots of kids get in a typical day
