Tag: PARCC

The following letter is in response to former senator Rachel Zenzinger's June 5 letter to the editor: "Reader’s view: Sen. Laura Woods flunks Common Core...

Teacher trouble One Boulder High School teacher has been demoted for, well, teaching. The story goes like this: All of Jim Vacca's AP Language Arts...

Gavels were slamming last night as the two parties arm wrestled through the final, defining issues of the session. Sine Die is the last night...

"Members, I know this is difficult," Sen. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said late last night. "But some of us have turned our focus to how much...

The first day it was four degrees. On the second day, the needle jumped to 15 degrees, and the sign-waving students celebrated. Those two...

For months Colorado lawmakers have been struggling to find a legislative compromise that would reduce standardized testing in schools but preserve millions in Federal funding and accountability for educators and students. On Thursday, the wait was over.

Bundled children held signs that bent in the the blowing sleet. They read: “Testing ≠ Teaching,” “School zone … No PARCCing,” “Have you freed a teacher today?” and the Twitter hashtag eponymous, “More than a score.”