New study shows subsidizing college yields significant employment and tax gains
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released Tuesday its annual report on education trends in the world’s wealthiest countries. The report shows a growing number of OECD countries, made of up 34 wealthy nations, the U.S. included, have advanced the number of individuals acquiring a college education compared to previous generations, as the below graph indicates.
College loan default rates hits 12-year high
A metric for gauging the number of college debt holders defaulting on their loans published today by the U.S. Department of Education shows borrowers who went into repayment between 2007 and 2009 defaulted at a rate of 8.8 percent — a 12-year high.
Childhood hunger in Colorado is on the rise
One thing you can say about a kid who goes to bed hungry is that he will wake up the same way. Odds are he'll go to school hungry as well. Repeat that cycle a few times a week and you've got a problem. Experts say it is a problem that can be solved, even though it hasn't been yet.
Education would get $55 billion boost from Obama’s jobs plan
Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to K-12 educators and renovations to nearly 35,000 schools.
Perry debuts ‘like a piñata’ at GOP debate, wins applause for execution record
All eyes focused on Texas Gov. Rick Perry as he made his debate debut Wednesday evening at the fourth GOP showdown, this one hosted by Politico and NBC.
Bennet: Teacher pay needs to be increased
Senator Michael Bennet this week published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, saying the country needs to completely revamp how teachers are paid--and needs to pay them more. The current pay scale, he writes, is based on a model that discriminated against and took advantage of women, who often had few other career opportunities.
Bennet and Udall send jobs report to Obama
On the heals of Rep. Diana DeGette hosting a women's business forum with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and Governor John Hickenlooper, Wednesday sent President Obama a report on innovation and job creation prepared earlier this year by Coloradans for an Innovation Economy, a group representing business and academia.
Colorado state budget researcher: ‘We’re headed off a cliff’
There is nowhere near enough money for Colorado to continue to do the business of the state as things stand, according to an influential team of researchers at the University of Denver. State lawmakers will either have to raise more money or cut away the kind of programs and services most Americans view as measures of the baseline quality of life achieved over centuries in the world's wealthiest nation.
Bachmann concludes Florida swing by vowing to repeal health reform
GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann concluded a weekend of Florida events with a Sarasota rally cosponsored by the local Republican Party and a handful of tea party and 912 groups, repeating her calls to eliminate both the EPA and the Department of Education and promising to lead the charge to repeal “ObamaCare.”
VIDEO: At Florida sub shop, Bachmann pledges to end EPA, Department of Education
Would-be GOP presidential nominee Michele Bachmann began her weekend tour of the Sunshine State today, making a late afternoon visit to a sub shop in Jacksonville Beach.