COLORADO
- Hamner named House Ed chair. EdNews Colorado, Summit Daily News
- Parents don’t want to lose neighborhood schools. Colorado Springs Gazette
- Falcon school board approves transfer of online GOAL Academy. Colorado Springs Gazette
- D-60’s Race to the Top ends. Pueblo Chieftain
- Colorado ranks 35th for on-time grads. Pueblo Chieftain
- District 6 student count grows; charters make the gains. Greeley Tribune (signup required for full article)
- Career Center students’ work goes on display. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
- UNC official: No change in marijuana policy. Greeley Tribune (signup required for full article)
NATIONAL
- Online schools spend millions to attract students. USA Today
- Standardized testing costs states $1.7 billion a year, study says. Education Week
- Charter school proponents to announce major focus on closing failing schools. Huffington Post
- California school districts face huge debt on risky bonds. Los Angeles Times
- Lawsuits target locator chips in Texas students’ IDs. Associated Press
- Pot legalization no free ride to smoke on campus. Associated Press
OPINION
- Voices: The problem with co-location. EdNews Colorado
- Editorial: Approve STRIVE high school at Denver’s North annex. Denver 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.