COLORADO
- Jeffco board censures board member Laura Boggs a second time. EdNews Colorado
- Hick budget plan boosts K-12, colleges. EdNews Colorado, Denver Post
- Education issues underscore election stakes. Education Week via EdNews Colorado
- Different sides view per-pupil funding differently. 9News
- Two Colorado schools cast votes in bellwether mock U.S. election. Denver Post
- Pueblo City leaders pitch state to reinstate federal SIG grant funding. Pueblo Chieftain
- A rocky grant history in Pueblo City district. Pueblo Chieftain
- Bump to higher ed makes school officials happy – to a point. Denver Post
NATIONAL
- A new kind of tutoring aims to make students smarter. New York Times
- Scores drop on Kentucky’s Common Core-aligned tests. Education Week (signup required for full article)
- Philly school district suspends school rating system, seeks fix. Philadelphia Notebook
- Indiana’s new rules for grading schools A to F not as scary as feared. Indianapolis Star
OPINION
- Voices: Rubber hits road on state educator effectiveness law. EdNews Colorado
- Voices: Adding up DPS pension costs. EdNews Colorado
- Ask an Expert: Help for son struggling with reading. EdNews Colorado
- Guest commentary: First, teach the teachers. Denver Post
Rise & Shine
Each weekday morning, we search websites of various media, comb through RSS feeds and peruse Google alerts to bring you a roundup of the day’s top education headlines, in Colorado and across the country, by 8 a.m. If you’d like to suggest a story we’ve missed or a source we should add to the list, please email us at ednews@ednewscolorado.org.