Rise & Shine: Pension funds and guns

COLORADO

  • School finance reform plans take shape. EdNews Colorado
  • State support for children’s programs slipping. EdNews Colorado
  • Teen accused of threats against Jeffco middle school. 9News
  • Thompson board may resume planning for new Loveland school. Reporter-Herald
  • Adams 12, Boulder Valley see enrollments grow. Boulder Camera
  • Colorado lunch ladies going back to scratch cooking. CPR
  • Boulder Valley schools outline safety procedures for parents. Boulder Camera

NATIONAL

  • Teacher pension funds have investments in gun companies. Huffington Post
  • Evaluating principals with test scores harder than you’d think. EdWeek
  • NEA, AFT win grant to build Common Core tools. EdWeek
  • Study: Performance-based financial aid may not have desired effects. Inside Higher Education

OPINION

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.