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Judge weighs Tennessee voucher program arguments




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Court Bars Tennessee From Starting School Voucher Program

A court said legislators violated the state's constitution when they passed a law that targeted specific areas to be included in the program without local consent.




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Judge rules Tennessee's voucher law is unconstitutional




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Lee encouraging voucher applications despite court order




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In reversal, Lee says state no longer implementing vouchers




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Judge blocks Tennessee from implementing voucher program




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Will Colorado Teachers Go on Strike? Lawmakers Are Worried

Two Republican legislators in Colorado have introduced a bill that would enact harsh consequences, including jail time, for teachers and teachers' unions who go on strike.




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Ex-Obama Adviser Who Championed Teacher Evaluations to Seek Senate Seat

Can a Democrat with a record of tying test scores to teacher evaluations win a U.S. Senate seat in Colorado? Mike Johnston, a former Obama campaign adviser, wants to find out.




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Colorado to Downsize PARCC Testing

Colorado will no longer administer the full PARCC exam to students.




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Colorado Voters to Decide Nearly 40 Ballot Questions to Support Education

Dozens of Colorado school districts are asking voters next month for more funding for education through bond issues, mill levy overrides, or renewal of a city sales tax.




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Colorado Ballot Measure Tests Voter Appetite for More K-12 Funding

Teachers and other education advocates hope that tax-wary voters will be willing to approve an amendment that would pour more than $1.6 billion more into schools each year.




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Dual-Language Learning: How Schools Can Empower Students and Parents

In this fifth installment on the growth in dual-language learning, the executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder., says districts should focus on the what students and their families need, not what educators want.




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Denver Teachers to Strike Over Merit-Pay System

In Denver, teachers will go on strike Monday to protest a performance-pay system that’s been in place for 15 years. The dispute is illustrative of a larger national shift away from differentiated pay.




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Colorado Teachers Are the Latest to Rally for Better Pay, More School Funding

Teachers in Colorado forced at least one school district to close as they rallied at the capitol to call for more education funding.




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Colorado Lawmakers Pass Pension Reform Bill in Late-Night Deal

The final version of the bill reduces the cost-of-living raises and increases employee contributions to their retirement, among other changes.




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Colorado Earns a B on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 11th in Nation

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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'I've Had a Lot of Survivor's Guilt': Columbine High's Former Principal on Healing His Community

Frank DeAngelis, who was the principal of Columbine High School from 1996-2014, talks about the steps he took to heal students and staff in the wake of the school shooting.




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Colorado Shooting Underscores Challenges of Keeping Students Safe (Video)

The STEM School shooting underscores the huge challenges educators face in keeping students safe, even as fatal and injurious gunfire inside K-12 schools remains statistically rare.




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John Hickenlooper, Who Helped Start a Scholarship Program For Needy High School Students, Announces Presidential Run

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who helped initiate a shakeup of Denver Public Schools, has announced that he's running for president as a Democrat in 2020.




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Superintendent: Immigrant Students Need a Safe Harbor in School

In the wake of anti-immigrant violence, we must help make sure that all students feel welcomed, writes Susana Cordova.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Colorado

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Reading Instruction: A Flurry of New State Laws

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights.




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Virus Outbreaks Lead to Closure of Two Colorado School Districts

All 46 schools in the Mesa County Valley School District closed last Thursday and Friday after students and staff at more than a dozen schools experienced norovirus-like symptoms.




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Will Academia Give Rural Schools the Attention They Need?

A push to open a center devoted to research and professional development for rural K-12 holds promise for educators who work in small, isolated communities.




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Settlement Reached in Colorado Case Over Students' Constitutional Rights

Students engaged in a protest against a culture they saw as punitive; their principal suspended them. What did a court say?




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Colorado

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Tennessee voucher program challenge heads to court Wednesday




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San Francisco schools adopt new grading policy amid pandemic




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Teachers Without Internet Work in Parking Lots, Empty School Buildings During COVID-19

While most teachers have online access at home, internet service for many educators in rural areas is spotty, expensive, or nonexistent.




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Food crisis deepens as Puerto Rico school cafeterias shutter




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Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were

Injustice in our education system was normalized long before the pandemic, writes Bettina L. Love. Now is the time to radically dream for a better future.




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Right-to-Education Ruling Jolts Education-Advocacy World

The decision by a federal appeals court recognizing the right to a basic minimum education may be felt far beyond the substandard Detroit schools underlying it, but hurdles could remain.




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Alabama student names NASA's first Mars helicopter




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Puerto Rico officials face outrage over school food crisis




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LeBron James to honor Class of 2020 with all-star event




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Questions surround governor's proposal to open schools early




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Judge weighs Tennessee voucher program arguments




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Washoe County School District names new superintendent




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Given the option, Montana schools choose to remain closed




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Suit challenges power of 4 N.C. towns to run charter schools




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Indiana teachers meet challenges for special needs students




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District Hard-Hit by COVID-19 Begins 'Tough Work' of Getting On

No place in Georgia has suffered a higher rate of coronavirus cases than Dougherty County. And the school system, largely rural and poor, is in the middle of it.




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Suit challenges power of 4 N.C. towns to run charter schools




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Raimondo tells schoolkids: I'll help you cope with isolation




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Ohio primary voters approved fewer school tax issues




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Murphy tells Trump at White House NJ will need billions




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Teachers union: Stagger school start times, change seating




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New York Schools Staying Closed Through Spring, Cuomo Says

New York’s schools and colleges will remain shut through the end of the academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.




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Baker orders use of masks: Mayor eyes fall school reopening




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Alaska book ban vote draws attention of hometown rockers