Cal State Faculty On Strike Amid A 'Scary Future'
California State University, the nation's largest four-year, public university system, is in trouble. Wednesday, professors authorized a strike over working conditions and pay, and students began a...
View ArticleBakes Sales Run A Foul Of Obesity Right
As school budgets continue to get squeezed, administrators, parents and students are having to do more fundraising. And now the fight to raise funds has come head-to-head with the fight against...
View ArticleSchool Bake Sales Draw Fire In Obesity Battle
An American tradition is in jeopardy.The bake sale, a staple of school fundraising for generations, is getting squeezed. The epidemic of childhood obesity is leading some districts to restrict the...
View ArticleEd News: Hick Urges School Boards To Aim High
“Colorado should have the best public school system in America. Period,” Gov. John Hickenlooper has told the annual convention of the Colorado Association of School Boards.
View ArticleSt. Vrain Valley School District Wins Race to the Top Funding
Northern Colorado’s St. Vrain Valley School District is among 16 winners in the latest round of federal Race to the Top grants.
View ArticleThe GOP And Taxes: In The States, It Can Get Complicated
When Republican Mike Pence replaced Mitch Daniels as governor of Indiana this month, he wasted no time setting out to establish his conservative fiscal bona fides.
View ArticleSequester Spells Uncertainty For Many Public Schools
If Congress and the Obama administration can't agree on a budget deal by Friday, the federal government will be forced to cut $85 billion from just about every federally funded program. Every state...
View ArticleColorado Supreme Court Hears Lobato Case
A prolonged lawsuit over how the state funds education went before the Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday.
View ArticleCapitol Conversation: Supreme Court Hears the Lobato Case
It’s now up to the Colorado Supreme Court to decide the fate of a historic education funding case after hearing oral arguments last Thursday.
View ArticleCapitol Conversation: Rewriting The School Finance Act
A major re-write of how Colorado funds K through 12 schools is now making its way through the state legislature. It’s an annual bill – but this year one state lawmaker wants to add even more money to...
View ArticleAs Colorado's Economy Improves, Lawmakers Wrangle Over The Budget
There’s only one absolute requirement for Colorado lawmakers at the capitol. During the annual legislative session they must pass a budget.
View ArticleColorado Schools Finance Bill Clears Senate, Next Stop The House
A complicated plan to change how Colorado funds its K-12 schools cleared the state Senate on party line vote Tuesday.
View ArticleSchools On Military Bases Also Fall Victim To Sequester Cuts
Transcript KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It's been two months since the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration officially went into effect. The decision on that was made here in Washington, but the...
View ArticleNavajo Schools Lose Funding Due To Sequestration Cuts
When Congress enacted the across-the board budget cuts known as the sequester in March, they cut $60 million for American Indian schools across the country.Since people living on reservations don't pay...
View ArticleChicago School System Plans More Layoffs
The Chicago Public Schools system is again in the spotlight after announcing late Thursday that it will lay off more than 2,100 employees — nearly half of them teachers. The laid-off educators account...
View ArticleEducation Funding Initiative Seeks A Spot On The Ballot
A roughly billion-dollar tax increase is likely to go before voters this fall. It’s part of a larger package of education reform that state lawmakers passed last session.
View ArticleSupporters Of K-12 Funding Overhaul Turn In Signatures [Updated]
A measure asking Colorado voters if they want to raise income taxes by nearly $1 billion a year to pay for public school upgrades is a step closer to the November ballot.
View ArticleHickenlooper Kicks Off Initiative 22 Push, Gessler Reviewing Signatures
Governor John Hickenlooper helped kick off the ballot campaign for Initiative 22 Thursday. The goal is ask voters to raise income taxes to pay for K-12 schools this fall.
View ArticleSchool Funding Ballot Initiative Hits Bump in the Road
Supporters of a ballot initiative to raise money for Colorado schools kicked off their campaign last week - just as the Secretary of State announced a review.
View ArticleEducation Tax Overcomes Legal Challenge To Stay On The Ballot
A ballot question to raise Colorado income taxes to help improve public schools has survived a legal challenge. A Denver District Court Judge has ruled that the proposal can go before voters.
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