COLORADO
- More than 300 teachers leave Douglas County schools. Denver Post’s Your Hub
- Hundreds of new teachers welcomed in Denver Public Schools. 9News, CBS4
- Denver’s Florence Crittenton High School for teen moms is the focus of a new reality TV series. U.K. Daily Mail
- Adams 12 schools brace for bigger classes, fewer resources. Broomfield Enterprise
- Boulder Valley School District preparing for hot weather as school starts. Boulder Daily Camera
- Video games used as learning tool at Boulder charter. Boulder Daily Camera
- Collaboration in Fountain leads to new campus combining high school, fire house. Colorado Springs Gazette
- Pueblo city, county schools return this week. Pueblo Chieftain
- Greeley church gives back to turnaround school. Greeley Tribune
- Extending application for Thompson school board seat nets three candidates. Loveland Reporter-Herald
- Pre-Collegiate program takes aim at western Garfield schools. Glenwood Springs Post Independent
- More than 500 turn out for dedication of new Salida high school. Pueblo Chieftain
- Great Education Colorado wants to make 2013 the year of the student. Westword
- Colorado medical marijuana being diverted to teens, CU study finds. Denver Post
- Students find financial reprieve at Colorado’s community colleges. Boulder Daily Camera
- Pueblo Community College president believes it can be best two-year school in nation. Pueblo Chieftain
NATIONAL
- Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan puts education spending in spotlight. Education Week
- Appeals court nullifies settlement allowing Los Angeles school district to bypass seniority in layoffs. Los Angeles Times
- Study: Junk food laws may curb childhood obesity. Associated Press via Boulder Daily Camera
- Dallas’s new highly-paid communications chief, former Harrison District 2 staffer Jennifer Sprague, has some communications issue at her first board meeting. Dallas Morning News
OPINION
- Voices: A parent urges the Dougco school board to come out from behind closed doors and listen to its community. EdNews Colorado
- Column: Denver’s Florence Crittenton High School stars in TLC’s High School Moms. Denver Post
- Editorial: Time for charters. Pueblo Chieftain
- Editorial: Global Partnership Schools, consultant to Pueblo City schools, must go. Pueblo Chieftain
- Paul Ryan on education policy: vouchers, for-profit colleges, local control. Answer Sheet in Washington 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 7:30 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.