BREAKING NEWS
Dwight Jones, former Colorado education commissioner, has abruptly resigned as superintendent of the Clark County schools in Nevada. Get details from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
COLORADO
- ASSET bill gets preliminary House approval. EdNews, Denver Post
- School safety after Sandy Hook. EdNews Colorado
- Union negotiations underway in Thompson. Loveland Reporter-Herald
- Poudre narrows list of superintendent finalists. The Coloraoan
- Lots of questions about school finance bill. CPR
NATION
- States’ support of higher ed continues to decline. Stateline, Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed
- PARCC tests will take 8-10 hours. EdWeek
- NAEP scores dragged down by past student absenteeism. EdWeek
- Financial aid group wants feds to shore up college lending to parents. ProPublica
- States take varied paths to increasing K-12 spending. EdWeek
- Judge intervenes in heated battle over Alabama choice bill. NPR
- Governor’s performance-based K-12 funding plan advancing in Arizona. East Valley Tribune
- Judge throws out new Louisiana tenure law. The Advocate
- News Corp. building a classroom tablet. Reuters
OPINION
- Voices: Appellate court was right on vouchers. EdNews Colorado
- Voices: Creating teacher-led innovation. EdNews Colorado
- Commentary: Evaluating the Colorado school finance proposal. Steamboat Pilot
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.