Clayton County’s new superintendent has in his contract a clause stating that he can have 107 days of his 240 workdays on vacation, holiday or doing consulting work. He is going to get paid $285,000 over 14 months.

The Union-Tribune reports on the school principal Francisco Velasco and how the school got off the “program improvement” list. The list was created for schools that needed to improve test scores.

The new Colorado state data says that 70% of third graders can read at grade level, a number that has remained stagnant for a decade.

In a secondary article they report that the CSAP exam is may be replaced.

has overstated the amount of students that have dropped out of school. Over 350 students were counted as dropouts, but they came back to school.

that will make it easier to get experienced teachers over to poorer schools.

on the increase of foreign language instruction the area.