The Colorado Education Association may be the 800-pound education group in Colorado politics, but that doesn’t mean other interest groups aren’t trying to weigh in on 2010 legislative races.
District-by-district lists
See the bottom of this article for charts listing education group endorsements in House and Senate districts.
To get a sense for who’s supporting whom, Education News Colorado reviewed legislative candidate contributions by the CEA-affiliated Public Education Committee and the AFT Colorado Federation of Teachers, School, Health and Public Employees Small Donor Committee, along with endorsements or contributions by three other groups.
Those are the Colorado Association of School Executives, a federation of school administrator groups, which
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Carol Padden, a UCSD professor whose childhood experience led her to specialize in sign language and deaf culture, has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation grant.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday signed three bills generated in San Diego County, including one that will give parents the right to seal autopsy reports and photographs of their murdered children.
Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerGov. Chris Christie will be in Old Bridge this afternoon to announce reforms he wants to make to the state's public education system.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie is ready to announce reforms he wants to make to New Jersey's public education system.
He's expected to do it at a town hall meeting on education reform this afternoon in Old Bridge.
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DAILY NEWS WRITERS
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Should U.S. schools extend the school year by a month?
Many New York parents welcomed the idea of a longer school year, just as most New York kids blew the notion a giant and very predictable raspberry.
"There's no way I would want to stay in school longer," said Henry Minier, 16, of the South Bronx. "The quality of the school seems more important than how long
She took on successive bureaucracies, demanding a proper education for Michael while he sat in juvenile hall and then county jail, his learning stagnating as he awaited trial. Now that he's in state prison, another fight may be on the horizon.
Rigoberto Ruelas, a fifth-grade teacher at Miramonte Elementary in South L.A., was hailed as a caring teacher who tutored students on weekends and after school and encouraged them to go to college.
A Caltech jellyfish expert and a Los Angeles artist-designer are among the recipients of the $500,000 awards. |
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