Colorado gets $17.4 million grant for data system to track student progress Education - The Denver Post

Education - The Denver Post

Colorado gets $17.4 million grant for data system to track student progress 305/22/2010Colorado's ability to win big-stakes education grants got a boost Friday when the federal government announced the state had been awarded $17.4 million to build a statewide education data system.

Chancellor of CU's Denver, Aurora campuses resigns05/22/2010 - Dr. M. Roy Wilson, the chancellor of the University of Colorado campuses in Denver and Aurora, will resign from both positions effective June 30, university spokesman Ken McConnellogue said Friday.

DPS, teachers agree on contract 905/21/2010 - Denver's teachers agreed to a delayed pay increase next school year and a pay freeze in 2011-12, according to the contract agreement reached between the district and union that was announced Thursday.

State gets millions for education data system 705/21/2010 - Colorado won a $17.4 million federal grant to build a statewide data system that will link information about public school students from the time they enter preschool to when they graduate college.

At Denver school, four square is quadruply hip05/21/2010 - Students streamed out of east Denver's Florida Pitt Waller K-8 school Thursday and flanked the playground, shouting to friends and warming up for a school first: a four-square tournament. It's a playground staple these kids elevate to a whole new level.