The Wrong Kind of Self-Employment: Keeping District Employees off Colorado School Boards
Colorado’s state legislators and local education policy makers should clarify the status of public school boards as representatives of the public interest. The law should reflect the fundamental incompatibility of a person simultaneously serving as an elected board member and paid employee for the same school district.
Should Colorado School Districts Stop Collecting Political Funds?
While teachers in Colorado are not required to belong to a teachers union, five school districts deduct an amount equivalent to union dues out of every teachers check, whether she joins the union or not. The burden is placed on the teacher to opt out every year during a window of time. If the teacher misses the deadline, the funds are taken out of the check every month and will not be refunded. This is claimed to be a voluntary authorization.
MLK on RTD
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say about RTD’s SlowTracks rail transit tax increase? Rail transit’s professed goal is to attract middle-class drivers who own one or more automobiles out of their cars and onto transit. Yet RTD’s plan is likely to reduce mobility for low-income people.
The False Panacea of Renewable Energy
Scribd file: IB-2004-B By The Center for the American Dream Renewable energy- wind, solar, hydro, and biomass – is advertised as superior to coal, gas, and other non-renewables. But renewable energy comes at a high environmental and economic cost. Moreover, government subsidies to renewables may actually stifle innovation. Market forces will do a better job […]
Why Slow Tracks Won’t Help Denver
RTD’s so-called “FasTracks” plan will cost billions and do nothing to relieve congestion or increase mobility.
