New teacher tenure rules proposed for Colorado are getting their first review by state lawmakers who asked for them. A House-Senate panel is meeting Monday afternoon to look at the proposed four-tier review standards for teachers. The state board of education approved the new evaluation standards to decide when teachers get employment protections sometimes called [...]
Continue reading …The newly merged Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Corps should make K-12 public education a top priority, the chamber’s top official said. Dave Csintyan, president and CEO of the Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, said the business community needs to partner with public schools to ensure a well-trained future work force. [...]
Continue reading …Colorado has been awarded a federal education grant worth nearly $18 million — after being passed over three times for bigger awards from the “Race To The Top” competition. The award announced Friday will be used to help pay for Colorado’s new statewide teacher evaluation system. It will also go toward math and science education. [...]
Continue reading …Budget documents from 20 Colorado school districts show taxpayers spent more than $5.8 million over the past five years for the activities of teachers unions, expenses that were mostly covered by their collective bargaining agreements. The costs ranged from $1.3 million in the Douglas County School District since 2007 to zero in the Mesa County [...]
Continue reading …The first participants in a new healthcare management program coordinated by the University of Colorado at Colorado Spring School of business graduated Thursday. The UCCS school of business collaborated with local healthcare organizations and businesses to design a certificate program of five courses over two months designed to prepare healthcare professionals new supervisory and management [...]
Continue reading …The Legislative Audit Committee’s going online. The committee approved a request yesterday by Seante President Brandon Shaffer of Longmont to perform an emergency audit of online public schools operating in Colorado. Shaffer requested the audit after reviewing state reports that raise concerns about the efficacy of some of the online program. “When I was in [...]
Continue reading …Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign a bill that allocates more money to schools than originally expected. The bill Hickenlooper signs Thursday is a bipartisan compromise among lawmakers that restores $22.5 million to schools next year by transferring surplus money from the state’s education fund, a sort of savings account for education funded by income taxes. [...]
Continue reading …Should Congress repeal No Child Left Behind? It’s a question for Colorado lawmakers Tuesday as they debate whether to approve a resolution telling Congress the education law is “ineffective.” Resolutions from state legislatures to Congress aren’t binding, but they can spark debate. The resolution asking for the No Child Left Behind law to be repealed [...]
Continue reading …No matter how many subjects they’re acing, most college students these days find economics a grind. Tricky financial calculations influence everything from what school they attend and what major they choose to how quickly they finish their degrees – or whether they graduate at all. Money problems, not bad grades, are the reason cited by [...]
Continue reading …Colorado lawmakers said Monday they’re negotiating a deal that would add another $90 million to the state’s languishing school funding, an issue that has been a major point of contention during embittered budget negotiations. The additional funding is a possibility because preliminary state revenue forecasts show higher-than-expected revenue gains, the lawmakers said. Democratic House Leader [...]
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