Life Skills Center of Denver Continues to Fill Important Niche for At-Risk Students
This week one of my Education Policy Center friends was privileged with the opportunity to visit a Denver charter school that fills a niche for 16- to 21-year olds who have dropped out and/or been neglected by the system. Life Skills Center of Denver is an alternative education campus that uses computer-assisted instruction in a […]
Suburbs Are Still Growing
Next time someone tells you about how everyone is returning to the cities, point them to these maps based on the 2010 census. Available for the forty largest urban areas in the United States, they show, almost without exception, the central cities losing population and the suburbs gaining. According to the mapmakers, “deep blue indicates […]
More New Charter Schools Coming Soon to Denver? (No Rude Remarks, Please!)
The warm weather here in Colorado and the lure of the swimming pool are the main reasons why readers here just get a quick update for today. Ed News Colorado’s Charlie Brennan reports that ideas for 11 new schools (eight of them charters) were pitched this week to the Denver school board.
The public charter sector […]
Health care: Maine moves toward freedom, Vermont toward single-payer authoritarianism
Maine adopts free-market reforms (though they conflict with federal health control bill), while Vermont goes single payer.
A Parking Garage Even (Some) New Urbanists Can Love
Architects, even New Urbanist architects, seem to love a parking garage recently built in Miami. In the video below, Andres Duany–the Antiplanner’s favorite New Urban architect–praises the garage as being as “beautifully designed a place as any piazza.” In fact, Duany adds, “it is a piazza; it’s a public square in the air” where you […]
Context on Colorado K-12 Funding & Personnel: Time to Aim Beyond Average
The Education Intelligence Agency provides a reminder that severe economic recessions typically don’t affect K-12 public education anywhere near the same as they impact families and businesses. From 2004 to 2009, school personnel increases outstripped student enrollment growth in most states. While some pine for Colorado to attain the national average in per-pupil spending, that average is fraught with unsustainable trends. Instead, let’s liberate parents and inform them as education consumers, make the funding follow the student, and then see if funding is “adequate.”
NHS in England fails to meet “even the most basic standards of care”
“The National Health Service is today condemned over its inhumane treatment of elderly patients in an official report that finds hospitals are failing to meet “even the most basic standards of care” for the over-65s” – Telegraph
State of the Subways
About thirty years ago, the Antiplanner’s first visited the East Coast, traveling there by Amtrak and riding rail transit lines in as many cities as possible. The Washington DC subway looked like a set from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, with gleaming trains quietly zooming into and out of clean stations that mostly featured high arch ceilings. […]
