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 [...]
Matt Gianneschi is resigning as deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education to become vice president of policy and programs for the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.
Cautiously optimistic. That’s one way to describe teachers’ attitudes about the pending rollout this fall of Senate Bill 10-191, the so-called teacher effectiveness policy.
The proposed overhaul of the school funding system is now law, but it’s unclear which proposal to fund the plan will go to voters.
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.
