Rise & Shine: Dwight Jones out in Vegas

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

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

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.