COLORADO
- State school construction board finalizes grants list. EdNews Colorado
- Denver elementary students march against gang violence. Denver Post
- CU regents warned of state funding disaster. Boulder Daily Camera
- Falcon school district delays some innovation plans. Colorado Springs Gazette
- New Ellicott superintendent calls for end to fighting, trash talk. Colorado Springs Gazette
- Greeley school board approves $8 million bond question for November ballot. Greeley Tribune
- Only one applicant for open Thompson school board seat. Loveland Reporter-Herald
- Roaring Fork school board members expected to approve interim superintendent contract with former state academic chief Diana Sirko. Aspen Times
- LIBOR finance scandal may cost Denver schools money, two school board members say. Denver Business Journal (subscription required for full article access)
NATIONAL
- Private school denies admission to teen with HIV. NPR
- Report: Tennessee teacher observation scores inflated. Education Week
- Help for the not-so-needy: A rise in merit-based aid for college students. New York Times
- The new community college try: For these students, college isn’t an assumption, it’s an aspiration. New York Times
OPINION
- Editorial: Lawsuit isn’t right way to change school funding formula but it needs to change. Pueblo Chieftain
- Op-ed: A college professor says online learning disrupts a teacher’s need to learn from his students. New York Times
- The Nation’s Dana Goldstein says Bill Gates has learned something in his education reform campaign. The Nation video
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.