Rise & Shine: More teachers, staff raises included in Mapleton budget

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

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