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Noonan: Double deja vu all over again in the state’s world of public education
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Once again, Colorado’s public education system will both re-vision and offer new standardized tests. It’s useful that the two projects happen at the same time, but only if fresh eyes and minds are put to the task. Let’s hold our breath. Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne will fulfill Gov. John Hickenlooper’s executive order to restart…
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Noonan: Colorado’s students get gruel for academic fuel
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Colorado’s public school students are on an Oliver Twist funding diet of gruel without milk. They’ve been on this “let them eat mush” meal plan since 2009-10 when the state’s education economy tanked. Most kids don’t achieve to their potential on gruel. Here’s the factual, no-nonsense dollars-and-cents data points underlying stagnant graduation rates, increasing drop-out…
