The House Education Committee Thursday passed a heavily amended version of House Bill 10-1274, a measure intended to give schools notification when a student is going to enroll after being in a day treatment center, facility school or state hospital.
The Aurora superintendent’s next “to do” list has some pretty daunting chores on it.
Teachers are placed into schools they didn’t choose – and whose principals didn’t choose them – at a much higher rate in Denver
A bill designed to give school districts better notice about students returning to school from treatment or juvenile detention ran into trouble Monday in committee and was laid over for fine-tuning.
Bills creating state requirements for arts education and immunization notification have received final House approval.
The Joint Budget Committee was told Wednesday it should set a target of $509 million for the amount to be trimmed from what schools would have expected to receive in 2010-11.
The revised school-funding lawsuit argues that the state constitutional requirement for “a thorough and uniform system” of schools takes precedence over TABOR and other “procedural” amendments.
It was kind of a topsy-turvy day in the House and Senate education committees.
Douglas County is taking its time finding a new superintendent, hoping to find just the right person for these challenging times.
A proposal that would have banned some people with felony convictions from non-teaching jobs at schools was killed Monday by the House Judiciary Committee.
