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…
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…
Dwight Jones, Colorado’s Commissioner of Education, is on a 14-city race himself right now, in order to seek support from local school districts for the state’s Race to the Top application.
The $4.3 billion competition, which has been billed…
Called out by reporters, Colorado Commissioner of Education Dwight Jones continues to cut back on his spendthrift ways.
Jones recently returned $940 to the state, to cover 2 ½ years of personal phone calls made on his state-issued cellphone. That’s…
Everybody loves charter schools these days, from the Gates Foundation to researchers.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan likes charter schools so much he has made them a cornerstone of his education reform plan, requiring schools to lift…
In recession-era budget-strapped Colorado, education administrators have had to make some tough choices. Take Department of Education Commissioner Dwight Jones. He had to decide between buying furniture, plasma screens and fancy dinners, on the one hand, and paying full teacher…
On Friday came the annual start to the school season here, marked as ever by the release of the Colorado Student Assessment Program scores.
And while the Colorado Department of Education’s Friday press release predictably led with the…
Mark Twain once offered up advice that, nearly a century after his death, is always sure to amuse. There are three kinds of lies, Twain famously said. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Yet no matter which part of the…
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