A Double Victory for Teachers’ Rights: Unions to Ask and Disclose
Decisions by a federal court and the Colorado Secretary of State on consecutive days spelled a preliminary dual victory for individual teachers and a setback for unaccountable union bosses.
School days
The go-slow lights were blinking the other day as I drove past a neighborhood school. Cars were parked everywhere, virtually on top of each other, and mothers and fathers were leading little ones – sometimes holding their hands – to the red brick building. I could almost feel the knots in the stomachs, the excitement, the sense of something big happening.
Union Greases Bacon’s Election
Host Jon Caldara and Education Policy Analyst Ben DeGrow discuss a recent Colorado Court of Appeals decision that called out the teachers union for illicit campaign activities. In 2004 the union in Fort Collins helped to grease the election of Bob Bacon to the state senate.
The Truth about Transit Oriented Development
RTD is preparing to spend billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money building rail transit. The problem it faces now is how to get people onto trains when most people live miles from rail lines. Its solution: Jam people into high-density housing around each rail transit station. RTD calls this “transit oriented development,” or TOD.
The Reading Crisis: Why Thousands of Colorado’s Kids Aren’t Learning to Read
Drs. Debora Scheffel and Jeannette Cornier, from the Colorado Department of Education, speak at the Independence Institute about the importance of teaching reading properly.
Pueblo Charter School Wins National Accolades
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that Pueblo’s Cesar Chavez Academy will be featured as one of two examples of charter school excellence in a soon-to-be-aired documentary video.
Medicare Cap Makes Physician Supply Fall Short
“Hello, I need to see a cardiologist for a heart checkup. I’ve been feeling a little pain in my chest for the past few days. Sometime this week would be the best.”
“I’m sorry. There is nothing available for the next couple of weeks. How about next month?”
This can be a common conversation in several Colorado counties, including Baca, Conejos, Custer, Dolores, Jackson, San Juan and Washington. Many rural counties in Colorado are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas. These local shortages of primary medical care providers are a part of a growing national problem. Indeed, entire states such as California, Arizona, and Wisconsin are suffering from physician workforce shortages.
