GOLDEN– On his eighth trip to swing-state Colorado this election year, President Obama came to this scenic town in battleground Jefferson County to energize and recruit ground troops to help his campaign win the state’s nine electoral college votes, just as he did in 2008.
In the wake of a race that saw attacks ads slung and supporters clashing between former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and Sen. Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democratic Party put out a press release this morning announcing it was hosting a unity party on the West Steps of the Capitol noon Thursday.
Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien, the administration’s top education advocate and the lead author of the state’s Race to the Top grant applications, this weekend fired back at Republicans like Colorado U.S. Senate Candidate Jane Norton. In December, Norton told…
After failing to make the grade in the first-round federal Race to the Top education funding competition in March, Colorado has pulled back into the race. Today the state submitted its application for second-round funding or roughly $175…
Colorado failed to win millions of first-round federal Race to the Top dollars, which may not be a bad thing in the long run, according to some analysts, because Colorado will now have the opportunity to improve its proposal…
A brief shocking but not surprising piece posted at the Great Education website today is making waves. It was also posted at the politics-insider Colorado Pols blogsite as a reminder to lawmakers as the legislative session begins that…
While Gov. Bill Ritter navigates the media storm set in motion by the surprise announcement that he will not run for reelection in 2010, Lt. Governor Barbara O’Brien is busy wrapping up the Colorado application to win K-12 school funding through the federal Department of Education’s $5 billion Race to the Top program. The program aims to reward innovative approaches to education reform. O’Brien is proposing new student performance testing and teacher evaluation, among other things. She spoke with the Colorado Independent over the holidays about the proposal and why many districts in the state have yet to sign on to the application.
Colorado parents of infants will soon begin to receive a Hallmark card… reminding them to vaccinate their children!
This week, Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien announced a partnership with Hallmark Card, Inc., to send all Colorado parents a Hallmark card…
DENVER — A corps of turnaround experts who would travel from failing school to failing school, a computerized, multimedia test to replace the Colorado Student Assessment Program, and a “360 degree” evaluation for teachers mirroring business-world performance evaluations were just some of the ideas Race to the Top school reform workgroups presented Friday to Gov. Bill Ritter, Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien and Commissioner of Education Dwight Jones.
Colorado stands to gain between $60 and $175 million if it wins a Race to the Top grant, according to finalized federal guidelines released today.
It’s not only the money that makes the contest high stakes for Colorado. If…
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