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Jones: Thank you for the recognition, but educating students requires more than free food
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Free burritos, free tacos and margaritas and discounted fried chicken sandwiches. These aren’t the happy hour specials at the local bar, but tokens of appreciation awarded to educators during Teacher Appreciation week. I understand the good intentions – and I love a good margarita – but does our society make these same offers to physicians,…
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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…
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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…
