COLORADO
- One Adams 12 Five Star school introduced a play program to bring back families and compete with surrounding schools. EdNews Colorado
- Amendment 66 dominated the conversation at an election forum in Durango, where schools would see an increase in per pupil funding. Durango Herald
- Lyons students will leave their temporary school in Longmont and return to their school buildings on Dec. 2. Times-Call
- Denver school board candidate Roger Kilgore calls for his opponent’s resignation from the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver. Denver Post
- Carbondale’s board of trustees approved a charter school’s plans to build a new LEED-certified campus in a growing subdivision. Post Independent
- But in Fort Collins, another charter school is still looking for a permanent home. Coloradoan
- As early application deadlines approach, students under stress turn to their parents and Twitter. Denver Post
- A man filming Longmont High School’s football game was injured when the lift he was on collapsed. Times-Call
NATION
- LA superintendent John Deasy is resigning in February, after a tenure characterized by clashes with unions. LA Times
- Obama will visit a school he touted in his 2013 State of the Union, in a push to include education in the upcoming budget. Huffington Post
- Charters can burden already struggling school districts, a study finds. Atlantic
- OPINION
- Class sizes can get too small and isolate students, says Malcolm Gladwell. Jimmy Kimmel
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.