Construction grant bids set to be culled
It’s the nervous time of year for schools that have their hopes pinned on winning state grants for new buildings and major renovations.
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Teen births down in Colorado
Colorado ranks among the top seven states experiencing declining teen birth rates in recent years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While teen birth rates declined nationally by 25 percent from 2007-2011, Colorado’s rate declined by more than 30 percent. The other six states to achieve similar drops are [...]
Rise & Shine: Dougco officials defend block scheduling
COLORADO A Colorado district’s gamble on competency-based learning is paying dividends after much tinkering. EdNews Colorado The Denver teachers union announced endorsements for the fall’s school board elections. EdNews Colorado The deepening friendship of two high school seniors, one with significant developmental delays and severe autism, will be highlighted at graduation when they walk across the [...]
Denver teachers union endorses board candidates
The Denver teachers union isn’t wasting time getting ready for the November election, opting to announce three endorsements four months earlier than normal. Those endorsements are: Meg Schomp, Roger Kilgore and Michael Kiley. The 3,000-member Denver Classroom Teachers Association Thursday announced three endorsements but conspicuously did not endorse anyone running for the southwest Denver seat [...]
Eagle snags Iowa schools chief as superintendent
Jason Glass, Iowa’s chief state school officer, has been named superintendent of the 6,400-student Eagle County School District.
Four years later, a district’s standards-based reform evolves and pays off
In 2009, a struggling Colorado district gambled on “standards-based education.” Four years later — after lots of tinkering — it looks like they won.
Rise & Shine: Chicago board votes to shutter 49 schools
COLORADO Head Start programs in Colorado are trying to tackle the problem of early childhood obesity. EdNews Colorado Iowa’s top education official is leaving to become superintendent of Colorado’s Eagle County school district. Des Moine Register A seventh-grader from Aurora competed in the final round of the National Spelling Bee. Denver Post Summer school construction will mean Poudre [...]
Calling all Colorado high school teachers
Teachers: The Colorado Department of Higher Education needs you. The DHE is looking for high school teachers who are willing to participate this summer in a Core to College Initiative, which attempts to promote collaboration between K-12 and higher education in the subjects of math and language arts. The initiative will bring high school teachers and [...]
Schmitt parents keep kids home to protest teacher firings
Parents upset that five probationary teachers at their school will not have their contracts renewed next year kept their children home from school Tuesday in protest. Teachers and staff confirmed Wednesday that about 100 of the school’s 413 students were absent from classes at Schmitt Elementary in southwest Denver. Several teachers and parents burned the [...]
Head Start tackles obesity
More than one in five of Colorado’s low-income pre-schoolers are overweight or obese. Head Start programs are trying to help solve that problem.
