common core
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Monument Republican Paul Lundeen announces run for term-limited Kent Lambert’s Senate District 9 seat
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State Rep. Paul Lundeen, a Monument Republican and former chairman of the State Board of Education, declared Wednesday he’s running for the Senate District 9 seat held by state Sen. Kent Lambert with the term-limited GOP incumbent’s endorsement. “We have achieved success in the House rolling back federal intrusion into our local public schools,” Lundeen…
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Noonan: Poor school funding over eight years leads to low four-year state graduation rates
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Colorado’s four-year high school graduation rate is bad. That should be no surprise. According to Education Week, Colorado achieved a 77 percent graduation rate in 2016, seventh from the bottom. Neighbor New Mexico has the lowest rate at 69 percent and Nebraska has the second highest rate at 90 percent. It’s interesting that road quality in…
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Noonan: Top-down decision-making in education won’t win over voters
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Half way into a letter called “Lessons on Education,” Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, admits that the foundation “underestimated the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement the <Common Core> standards.” This mild acknowledgment doesn’t begin to address the chaos that…
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New CDE Commissioner Crandall comments on Colorado legislators, new role
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New Department of Education Commissioner Richard Crandall has a few weeks of work under his belt, and it has been overwhelming — the good kind of overwhelming, he said, the kind that has him buzzing with new ideas. “More than 30 organizations have contacted us, saying ‘Hey, we want to meet with you,’” Crandall told…
