rural schools
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Bennet, Gardner urge leadership to pass Secure Rural Schools Program
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Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are urging Senate leaders to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools program by the year’s end to avoid cuts in funding to rural public schools. The Secure Rural Schools program, which expired in 2015, supports public schools, public roads, forest health projects, emergency services and other essential county…
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Democrat Cary Kennedy says she’s running for governor to spread opportunity throughout Colorado
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Cary Kennedy loves this place. Over there is a field where she played high school sports, and there’s the cross-country course her daughter runs. She grew up nearby, attending Manual High School. Off in the distance, catching the sun, that’s the gold dome of the state Capitol, where she spent four years as state treasurer,…
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How to recruit and retain rural teachers in Colorado? Utah has an idea
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The state’s public education establishment has been following legislation afoot this session to study the complex and daunting challenge of luring more teachers to Colorado’s rural climes. A lot of hopes are riding on the bipartisan House Bill 1003, which now has passed both chambers of the General Assembly. The bill aims to earnestly analyze the teacher recruitment and…
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Noonan: Bill envisions high quality education for Colorado … But where’s the money?
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A new bipartisan bill, Achieving a Vision for Education in Colorado, HB17-1287, sets up an advisory board to create a strategic plan for public education, preschool through college, for implementation up to 2030. The bill recognizes that the 21st century world is “fiercely competitive” and that a “world class highly effective twenty-first-century learning system is the…
