Gov. Bill Ritter will address recommendations for preserving higher education in the face of declining revenues and increasing tuition. The plan will be submitted Thursday by the Higher Education Strategic Planning Steering Committee. The planning committee is warning that Colorado voters and taxpayers need to come up with more money for higher education or the [...]
Continue reading …The U.S. Department of Education’s director of community outreach is visiting Colorado. Alberto Retana will speak today at the Far Northeast Community Committee meeting at Rachel B. Noel Middle School in Denver. On Wednesday, Retana will attend a special Spanish-language screening of the documentary “Waiting for Superman.” More than 200 people from several Denver groups [...]
Continue reading …Lazy students. Neglectful parents. School bureaucracies run amok. There’s plenty of blame to go around when you try to figure out why the nation’s education system is in such bad shape. But there’s no greater problem than teachers who’ve given up, or perhaps never cared in the first place. That is the central message of [...]
Continue reading …“As far as I’m concerned, gambling’s proof that humans aren’t evolving,” Tim commented on the way home from Cripple Creek. “We know for a fact that the odds are stacked against us, but we still feed the machines.” I’d always had a sort of superior attitude toward the multitudes who head up Ute Pass to [...]
Continue reading …First-grade teacher Gina Oellig of Soaring Eagles Elementary School in Harrison School District 2 has been given the the Milken Educator Award. Each year, the Milken Foundation gives 55 of the national awards, which come with a prize of $25,000. There is no nomination and application process for the award. Instead, a state panel recommends teachers for the award. Oellig [...]
Continue reading …Tuition at the state’s colleges and universities is likely to jump 21 percent to compensate for education cuts to the state budget. The state cut $50 million in funding from the University of Colorado’s budget in fiscal year 2008-09 and an additional $71 million the following year. Last week, the state’s colleges submitted financial accountability [...]
Continue reading …Students could soon learn details of plans to raise tuition at Colorado state colleges and universities. The Colorado Department of Higher Education is expected to release the plans Wednesday. Department spokeswoman Dawn Taylor Owens tells the Pueblo Chieftain that the Colorado School of Mines was the only eligible school that hasn’t asked for permission to [...]
Continue reading …A Colorado Springs man has been awarded more than $300,000 in a lawsuit claiming he didn’t get jobs in Colorado Springs School District 11 because he’s black. A federal jury in Denver found in favor of George Christopher Ash, awarding him $303,178 in damages Friday after a weeklong trial. The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports [...]
Continue reading …Colorado has lost out again in the race to win federal “Race to the Top” education grants. The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday that nine other states and the District of Columbia won the second round. With the exception of Hawaii, all the winning states are in the East. The Colorado Board of Education [...]
Continue reading …Colorado State University is offering a new program aimed at making companies more valuable through sustainable business practices. The new program, called SEE (Sustainability Executive Education), is being offered through CSU’s College of Business and the Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise. “Business education at Colorado State University is entering a new era today [...]
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