COLORADO
- Denver Public Schools Board Chair Mary Seawell says she won’t seek re-election. EdNews Colorado
- The proposed school finance reform bill passed the Senate. EdNews Colorado
- The Steamboat Springs School Board is considering seeking a property tax increase this fall in response to the state finance bill. Steamboat Today
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a fired University of Colorado professor. Inside Higher Ed
NATION
- Atlanta educators named in school cheating indictments there have begun to turn themselves in. AJC
- The cheating indictments are again raising questions about the dangers of high-stakes testing. MSNBC
- High school seniors are more worried about how to pay for college than they are about getting in. Denver Post
OPINION
- A CU-Boulder professor argues that the key to KIPP’s success is higher per-pupil spending. USA Today
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.