In addition to K-12 budget cuts and pensions, top education issues are expected to include charter school regulation, testing, how to slice the shrinking higher ed financial pie and improved alignment between community and four-year colleges.
Part 2 of Ed News’ video series on space-sharing at Rishel Middle School takes at closer look at Denver’s first teacher-led school.
Rishel Middle School in southwest Denver is one of only a handful of traditional city school buildings sharing space with new school programs this fall. It is the only one slated to close as two new schools grow around it. Ed News Colorado is following the progress of the three schools – the traditional middle [...]
Denver’s school board may undergo a major transformation in the wake of Tuesday’s election.
All four Republican Party-endorsed candidates easily won victories over their teachers’ union-endorsed opponents in the Douglas County school board election.
Greeley school leaders Tuesday night conceded defeat in their bid for a $16 million mill levy override, while the Mapleton district’s proposed bond issue and override were headed to defeat.
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, [...]
As recent events attest, the Cesar Chavez Schools Network is an organization mired in controversy. This magazine-length article provides a comprehensive look at the network, its players, and the multiple sources of tumult.
Download pdf version of this story * Nearly 100 percent of teachers in Colorado’s largest school districts received satisfactory ratings in each of the past three years, an indication the state’s system to improve classroom instruction is broken. Education News Colorado requested teacher evaluation data from the six largest districts, all in the metro area, [...]
Financial worries dominated the 2009 session of the Colorado General Assembly, halting efforts to rebuild state college and university budgets and prompting attempts to nibble at the edges of Amendment 23’s guarantees for K-12 spending. The most significant policy proposal of the 2009, Senate Bill 09-163, passed easily and with little examination outside of the [...]
