COLORADO
- The Colorado Education Association provided an initial quarter million dollar donation to the campaign to pass a new tax for K-12 education. EdNews Colorado
- The Mapleton school district budget includes salary and benefit increases and funds for more elementary school teachers. Our Colorado News
- The Poudre School District’s Lincoln Middle School will have a new principal. Coloradoan
NATION
- Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst group raised $28.5 million in its first full year, far short of its $1 billion goal. Huffington 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.