Jeffco board gets an earful
Heavyweights from Jefferson County’s business, government and community scolded board member Laura Boggs at a recent board meeting for behavior and comments they say have damaged the district Jefferson...
View ArticleEd Secretary highlights Colorado girl
In a major speech at the Office of Special Education Programs’ leadership conference Tuesday, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave a shout out to a Conifer High School student and her special...
View ArticleColorado school finances
I noticed many of the comments on today’s story about the state auditor’s report on school finances, lamented a lack of financial data in the story. So here’s some more! This is a link to the report...
View ArticleMap-quiz: metro area school district trivia
Test your knowledge of school district trivia with this quick seven question quiz. Works best if you expand the map (by clicking in the top right corner) to full screen so you get a better view of the...
View ArticleInside school drug sweeps — an unusual encounter
Police K9 units that were out this week doing a drug sweep at Pomona High School encountered something unexpected: a cat. Pomona student Sara Hashman was in the classroom when the encounter happened....
View ArticleContract for Jefferson County leader
See contract for new superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools.
View ArticleDenver's George Washington HS to get new principal
Denver’s George Washington High School will have an interim principal when school starts in less than a month. Current principal, Micheal Johnson, announced Wednesday in a letter to parents that he was...
View ArticleRepublican state Senate candidates in Jeffco told to stop using fliers with...
Jefferson County Public Schools lawyers and The Denver Post have sent cease-and-desist letters to three Republican state Senate candidates. The candidates' campaign fliers featured unauthorized use of...
View ArticleBreaking down the state Board of Education races: 7th district
Elections to fill the state Board of Education are normally sleepy affairs, with little attention or money, not much voter interest, and a good degree of puzzlement about what the board does exactly....
View ArticleColorado School Grades releases 2014 rankings of Colorado public schools
For parents wondering how their kids' schools stack up, a coalition of nonprofit groups Monday released its fourth annual report card using easy-to-grasp letter grades their children know all too well.
View ArticleHow many hours for testing?
Why the yawning gap in the estimated time given over to testing Colorado students? What exactly is being measured?
View ArticleTake Note: a look back at the week in education news (Vol. 13)
A new wrinkle to dual language education, additional hurdles for parents opposed to vaccinations, an untimely server crash slows testing, harsh sentences for Atlanta educators convicted in a cheating...
View ArticleTake note: a look back at the week of education news, Vol. 24
This week's education news included new pot tax numbers, new state test results and a revision to federal law. Catch up on that and more with this week's Take Note... Testing: Colorado's Department of...
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