COLORADO
- The state Board of Education approved a new set of graduation guidelines that focuses on student mastery rather than how long they’ve attended class. EdNews Colorado
- School finance lawyer Mike Johnson announced that he will run for Denver’s school board. EdNews Colorado
- The food and nutrition director of Southern Colorado’s largest district worries that the Breakfast after the Bell bill, which was signed into law yesterday, will become an unfunded mandate. KOAA
- The Denver Board of Education will vote tonight on a plan to move McAuliffe International School, which is part of a school shuffle that is causing tension in the surrounding neighborhoods. Denver Post
- Three struggling Pueblo middle schools will find out today whether they will become Innovation Schools. Pueblo Chieftain
- Pikes Peak region teachers are struggling to keep classroom rules about technology ahead of technological advances. Gazette
- Hundreds of Boulder students learned about water at CU. Daily Camera
NATION
- Following a national trend, Los Angeles schools will end the practice of suspending students for “willful defiance.” Wall Street Journal
- Chicago’s teachers union is suing to stop the closure of 53 schools. Sun-Times
Rise & Shine
Each weekday morning, we search websites of various media, comb through RSS feeds and peruse Google alerts to bring you a roundup of the day’s top education headlines, in Colorado and across the country, by 8 a.m. If you’d like to suggest a story we’ve missed or a source we should add to the list, please email us at ednews@ednewscolorado.org.