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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged the nation’s largest
teachers union today to put the needs of children before the jobs of
adults, calling for the NEA to embrace efforts such as tenure reform
and the use of student test scores to judge teacher performance. With link to full text of prepared remarks and snapshots of pay-for-performance in four Colorado school districts.
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Financial belt tightening by state colleges and universities means crowded classrooms will likely face students at many schools,
since faculty positions have been cut or remain unfilled. Leading some
of those classes will be faculty who aren’t getting raises this year. And, overburdened faculty may be harder to find for one-on-one interactions
with students, say some higher ed officials.
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Colorado’s two statewide education boards Tuesday formally adopted a
description of postsecondary and workforce readiness, a key requirement
of 2008’s Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids education reform program.
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Commentary
While the recent report “Multiple Choice:
Charter School Performance in 16 States” has mixed conclusions about charter schools nationwide, it was encouraging to see the report state that charter schools
in Denver are outpacing their district peers and are “providing
superior education opportunities for their students.”
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Some future legislative study committee may look back and conclude for
the record that 2009 was the year that Amendment 23 lost its mojo.
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Financial belt tightening by state colleges and universities means crowded classrooms will likely face students at many schools,
since faculty positions have been cut or remain unfilled. Leading some
of those classes will be faculty who aren’t getting raises this year. And, overburdened faculty may be harder to find for one-on-one interactions
with students, say some higher ed officials.
State colleges and universities are holding the budget line
with federal stimulus funds, but that doesn't mean there
haven't been cuts.
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