Advanced Placement incentives bill gets in line
The House Education Committee on Wednesday apparently agreed with Rep. Jim Wilson, R-Salida, when he said, “I believe all students should have equal opportunity to pursue Advanced Placement classes.”...
View ArticleHouse panel endorses study of minority teacher pipeline; school finance law...
An articulate seventh grader helped to convince the House Education Committee Wednesday to pass a bill that would require the state Department of Education to study the shortage of minority teachers...
View ArticleAre Colorado colleges meeting workforce needs?
Are Colorado colleges and universities pumping out graduates with the right degrees to take the jobs that the state needs filled? A recent report from the Department of Higher Education and two other...
View ArticleLawmakers reach compromise on CSU Global Campus bill
Expected controversy over a proposed expansion of Colorado State University Global Campus was defused Thursday with what was reported to be a last-minute compromise. As originally introduced, Senate...
View ArticleBill could liven up higher ed discussions
This year was supposed to be a legislative session of sweetness, light and more money for Colorado’s colleges and universities. Gov. John Hickenlooper proposed a $100 million increase for higher ed,...
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Speaker Ferrandino pitches new higher ed funding formula
The questions were flying like balls out of pitching machine Friday when House Speaker Mark Ferrandino defended his new higher education funding bill at a meeting of the Colorado Commission on Higher...
View ArticleThe legislative habit of gambling on the future
One of the many peculiarities of Colorado’s complex state budgeting process is the legislature’s weakness for spending – or at least promising to spend – money before it’s even collected. The latest...
View ArticleParty lines sharply drawn on Common Core, PARCC
During a procedural roll-call vote early Thursday evening, all 17 Republican senators voted for a motion to pull $16.8 million in funding for the coming PARCC tests from the proposed 2014-15 state...
View ArticleHigher ed funding bill sparks high-level differences
It’s rare to see vigorous public debate between the speaker of the House and the lieutenant governor, especially when they’re from the same party. But a proposed higher education funding bill brought...
View ArticleThird version of higher ed makeover passes committee
House Speaker Mark Ferrandino’s proposed overhaul of Colorado’s higher education funding system got a 10-2 endorsement from the House Education Committee Wednesday, but more work and likely some...
View ArticleHigher ed funding bill has easy time in House
It's nice to be speaker of the House, even when you’re a lame duck. The House Thursday gave easy preliminary approval to Speaker Mark Ferrandino’s proposal to inject a little performance funding into...
View ArticleOnline bill has rocky outing in House Education
Proposed changes in state law governing multi-district online schools got generally bad reviews from witnesses at a committee hearing Monday, and a vote on House Bill 14-1382 was delayed so its...
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Higher ed system goes back to the drawing board
With polite smiles firmly pasted on their faces, Colorado’s higher education leaders and bureaucrats are steeling themselves for an intense six months of work on a performance funding system that none...
View ArticleHave your say on how the state pays for higher education
Colorado’s higher education system is in the middle of trying to figure out how to implement House Bill 14-1319, which sets up a new system for funding colleges based both on enrollment and performance...
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Where Bruce Rauner and J.B. Pritzker stand on key education issues, from...
The race for Illinois governor is shaping up to be one of the most expensive in U.S. history, and anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock has probably seen or heard one of the barrage of ads for the...
View ArticleMore NYC high school graduates are college-bound — and 'college ready'
Marking a new record high, 62% of students in the class of 2018 have enrolled in higher education programs, city officials said Thursday. Nearly 49,000 students who started high school in the fall of...
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‘Do everything’: Journalist Paul Tough on how colleges can get more...
All those college pennants in American classrooms and the focus on “college readiness” point to one fact: Despite the rising costs, a college degree retains a rare power to lift young people out of...
View ArticleWith move to online learning, University of Denver students petition for...
Taking up a call made by college students around the country, students at the University of Denver are asking for a tuition reduction that reflects what they’ve lost since the campus closed last month...
View ArticleCounselors’ advice for college-bound students facing coronavirus uncertainty:...
Like many other prospective college students worried about their future during the coronavirus pandemic, Vista Peak Prep senior Jordan Stewart is debating whether he should wait to go to college. “It's...
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