COLORADO
- Head Start programs in Colorado are trying to tackle the problem of early childhood obesity. EdNews Colorado
- Iowa’s top education official is leaving to become superintendent of Colorado’s Eagle County school district. Des Moine Register
- A seventh-grader from Aurora competed in the final round of the National Spelling Bee. Denver Post
- Summer school construction will mean Poudre School District will partially or totally restrict access to 16 school buildings. Coloradoan
NATION
- Community colleges are enrolling more students but receiving less federal funding. New York Times
- Chicago’s school board voted to close 49 schools, the most ever shuttered in the city in a single year. Chicago Tribune
A new study shows that charter schools in Boston have higher test scores but lower graduation rates. Boston Globe
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.