Denver Public Schools is making it harder for kids to get lost in transit. Beginning in October, DPS will fully implement its new +Pass program across its 26,000-student bus riders, which will allow administrators to track students as they board and disembark from district buses. At a demonstration of the program on Tuesday morning, students at [...]
COLORADO The Denver school board asked district staff to re-evaluate its “do-not-rehire” policy for dismissed teachers. EdNews Colorado The state Board of Education considered guidelines for evaluations of non-teaching school staff. EdNews Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper plans to sign the school funding overhaul today. AP via the Republic The University of Colorado is struggling to stop its faculty [...]
The Denver school board voted unanimously Monday to have staff tweak the district’s controversial “do not rehire” practice targeting teachers.
Colorado is moving closer to a system for evaluating counselors, nurses and other school professionals who aren’t classroom teachers.
It’s always a nice day when an editor gets to brag about her reporters: over the weekend, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Colorado Pro chapter announced the winners of its “Top of the Rockies” contest, and I’m happy to report that EdNews Colorado took home three awards. The team won first prize in the enterprise [...]
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed the bill needed to fund the state’s schools next year and a bill that tweaks the educator evaluation system.
COLORADO Students in Jeffco would spend six to eight more hours in class next year under the superintendent’s budget proposal. Denver Post Incoming Aurora superintendent Rico Munn says his first task will be to delve into existing programs to see which ones are effective. Denver Post A group of Hispanic parents concerned that their children were being [...]
The Denver school board voted 6-1 early Friday to move McAuliffe International School from its home in Stapleton several blocks southeast into Smiley Middle School.
COLORADO The Denver school board voted early Friday morning to table a decision on whether to not renew contracts for more than 200 teachers next year after hours of emotional testimony. EdNews Colorado The State Board of Education heard arguments for and against a controversial new student data tracking program. EdNews Colorado Southwest Denver families are complaining [...]
The Denver school board will make a final decision at 3 p.m. Monday regarding the fate of 220 probationary teachers.
