Arizona and Indiana have signed on to use the Colorado Growth Model for monitoring student achievement. Colorado Department of Education officials said the states signed formal agreements to use the online data tool that measures individual student and group progress from year to year. The goal of the program is to implement a single system [...]
Continue reading …MIAMI (AP) – The U.S. Department of Education named 16 finalists today in the first round of its “Race to the Top” competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform grants. Selected from a pool of 41 applicants are: Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North [...]
Continue reading …A continuing debate in Colorado Springs, throughout the state and indeed throughout the country concerns public education. How should it be funded, structured and delivered? Who should call the shots — local school boards, state legislators, or federal agencies? Should state and federal money be sent to local schools and school districts according to simple, [...]
Continue reading …The Obama administration is offering $4.4 billion to a select group of states willing to push school reforms, and Colorado officials are working on a pitch to win what lawmakers call the education Powerball, according to Business Journal media partner FOX 21 NEWS.It could bring another estimated $400 million to Colorado over four years, depending [...]
Continue reading …A bill that helps members of the Colorado National Guard afford to go to college in Colorado was approved by the state House of Representatives this morning by a 56-4 vote. The Department of Higher Education currently can provide up to $650,000 a year to the Department of Military and Veteran Affairs for Guard scholarships. House Bill [...]
Continue reading …The only nonprofit center in Southern Colorado to focus on education and research in the health sciences opened this week in Colorado Springs.The Julie Penrose Health Education and Research Center, located at 6071 East Woodmen Road at the St. Francis Medical Center campus, is a community-based, state-of-the-art medical center that will focus on health sciences [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Commission on Higher Education has approved the Falcon extension of Pikes Peak Community College. The new campus will be housed in the former Falcon Middle School, off Highway 24. It will be the fourth campus for PPCC and the first new site in more than 10 years. The location of the campus will [...]
Continue reading …Biz Kid$, an initiative launched by Junior Achievement, is aimed at educating young people about finances and entrepreneurship. The multi-media initiative includes classroom curricula, a companion public TV series, a Web site and online newsletter. Junior Achievement created the classroom curricula for the initiative and, through its volunteer network, will offer it to teachers and [...]
Continue reading …Boulder venture capitalist Brad Feld has donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado for naming rights and a plaque on the second-floor men’s bathroom in the campus’ newly constructed technology hub. It’s an offer that was flushed away by Feld’s alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but C.U. officials took Feld up on the [...]
Continue reading …If it seems to you that more and more people are moving to Colorado every year, you’re right. The U.S. Census Bureau reported yesterday that that state’s population grew by 2 percent, or 95,267 people, between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007. That puts the state’s population at 4.8 million and ranks it as [...]
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