COLORADO
- The Senate advanced the funding plan for next school year, but only after stripping $5 million in preschool quality improvement dollars. EdNews Colorado
- As they ate their dinners at their desks, Senators advanced a bill allowing students to eat breakfast at theirs. EdNews Colorado
- Public school teacher evaluations won’t be made public under a bill that won final legislative approval. CBS 4
- A movement questioning Common Core standards is growing in the state. NBC 11
- The superintendent of St. Vrain Valley School District cautioned that school finance reform wouldn’t mean more money for the district’s schools. Longmont Times-Call
- The University of Colorado is setting up a task force to come up with new funding streams for the school. AP via 9News
- The first woman astronaut to command a space shuttle is helping promote a program aimed at improving STEM instruction. Denver Post
- The number of Pueblo students who needed remediation when they went to college decreased slightly but still represents more than half of the district’s in-state college-going population. Pueblo Chieftain
- As enrollment at Windsor High School increases, district officials are eyeing a site for a new school in Severance. Coloradoan
NATION
- New studies suggest that social media can help students bond. EdWeek
OPINION
- Editorial: There’s a growing body of evidence that greater police presence in schools does little to improve safety, but it increases the number of discipline problems treated as criminal issues. New York Times
- Commentary: High remediation rates show why we must demand better outcomes from our schools. Pueblo Chieftain
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.