Twelve area schools receive $435,000 from Foundations for Great Schools...
Twelve schools and two public charter management organizations from Aurora, Brighton, Denver, Littleton and Jefferson County are recipients of a $435,000 awards program grant from the Foundations for...
View ArticleColorado's Michael Chen and Siyu Wu recognized as U.S. Presidential Scholars
Colorado Students Siyu Wu and Michael Chen have been named 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholars. They will be honored at a ceremony in D.C. later this month.
View ArticleColorado School of Mines ranked number one engineering school in U.S.
College Factual ranked Colorado School of Mines as the top engineering institution in America. The school also completed a record-setting year in donations.
View ArticleFaces of the invisible achievement gap
In a new study, researchers find Colorado foster care children are far less likely to graduate high school than students from other challenging backgrounds.
View ArticleDirector of English Language Acquisition talks data
The U.S. Department of Education is beginning to track more data on how English Language Learners do compared to students who have English as their first language, said Libia Gil, director of the U.S....
View ArticleGroup urges Denver board to change school performance framework
A group of organizations and charter schools signed a letter Tuesday asking Denver Public Schools to re-write the School Performance Framework that evaluates and ranks each school in the district and...
View ArticleDenver families using school choice pick highest quality schools
While Denver Public Schools has seen high rates of participation in the district's school choice system, there are still gaps among who participates and where students request to go, according to a new...
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...
View ArticleAmendments to waiver request ready after testing legislation
Update: The Colorado Board of Education on Wednesday voted to delay approval of the changes made to the waiver request until September, to see if staff can work out the last unresolved issues. A...
View ArticleHow Colorado is proposing to deal with low participation rates
Students walked out, parents opted out, and for a variety of reasons, up to half of Colorado's 11th grade students did not take the new standardized tests this spring. PARCC data released Thursday by...
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