COLORADO Boulder Valley School District is helping students gain their GEDs and advance into the next stages of careers. Daily Camera Every fourth- through eighth-grader in Englewood schools will receive an iPad in the fall. Our Colorado News The RE-1 school board has a vacant seat. Journal-Advocate NATION The latest Congressional proposal to rewrite the No [...]
COLORADO The United Way of Weld County won a grant for education of new parents and parents-to-be. Greeley Tribune A program that serves free lunches from a traveling school bus in Denver and Aurora is making some changes this year. Our Colorado News Summer programs aim to stop child hunger while school is out of session. The [...]
COLORADO Teachers at Douglas County schools where the district says too many teachers were rated highly are being re-evaluated. Denver Post Parents say they’re caught in the middle of the fight between Dougco teachers and administrators. 9News School officials say a new sex education law will add clarity to what “comprehensive sex education” means in schools. The Gazette [...]
COLORADO Aurora Public Schools is extending the school year for students who need extra help but aren’t the lowest-achieving in the district. EdNews Colorado An advisory panel fretted about the state of school finance. EdNews Colorado Colorado provides little oversight of families that are homeschooling their students. KRDO All middle and high school sports have been cut from [...]
COLORADO Six rural districts with crumbling schools advanced to the next stage of a competition for new school building funding. EdNews Colorado The University of Colorado is one of nine state higher education systems that is expanding its relationship with online course provider Coursera. EdNews Colorado Douglas County school officials and its union are clashing over [...]
COLORADO A Denver elementary school community is in turmoil after five teachers were placed on the city’s “do-not-rehire” list. EdNews Colorado The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the state’s funding system now focuses attention on the school finance bill and its accompanying tax referendum. EdNews Colorado The school boards from the 92 Colorado districts involved in the [...]
COLORADO A state board will divvy out more than $300 million in school construction projects this week. EdNews Colorado News outlets are reporting that the Colorado Supreme Court will overrule a lower court’s finding that the state school funding system is unconstitutional. Fox31 The outcome of the decision was released early on the Supreme Court’s website [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a major school finance overhaul yesterday, but it’s still not clear exactly which ballot question voters will consider to fund the measure. EdNews Colorado Colorado districts are preparing to implement new teacher and principal evaluations this fall. EdNews Colorado For seniors at the shuttering Wasson High School, graduation is bittersweet. Gazette The RE-1 [...]
