Vincent Carroll Sounds Bold Themes of Dougco School Board Budget Proposal
Last week I brought your attention to the Douglas County school board’s bold proposals heading into historic open negotiations. (Thank you, Parent Led Reform!) While I’m little and sometimes notice things that most big people do not, that’s certainly not the case with the Dougco budget proposal.
In fact, Denver Post columnist Vincent Carroll yesterday delved […]
Teachers Matter Author Headlines First Independence Institute Brown Bag Lunch Event
On Thursday, April 12, the Independence Institute Freedom Embassy hosted its first-ever Brown Bag Lunch event with a presentation on the research that informs educator effectiveness policies. Manhattan Institute senior fellow and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor Dr. Marcus A. Winters shared the findings from his new book Teachers Matter with an audience […]
Medicaid’s Cruel Status Quo: It’s a Medicaid Ghetto
But by ignoring the past success of welfare reform, and ignoring the serious problems with today’s Medicaid program, it’s the Times that is seeking to trap sixty million Americans in a government-run health care ghetto. Continue reading
Did the Founders expect the Courts to Declare Laws Unconstitutional?
Every so often I’m asked whether the Founders anticipated judicial review. In other words, whether the Founders expected the courts to void laws they found unconstitutional. The clear answer is “yes.” During the colonial era, each colony was governed by its charter, which was a kind of constitution for the colony. Colonial laws in violation […]
Research Says Teachers (and Teacher Policy) Matter
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Dr. Marcus Winters discusses the major themes of his new book Teachers Matter. Learn what research has to say about how to identify, promote and reward effective teachers.
What to do if Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare
Economist John Cochrane suggests free-market health care reforms that Congress should enact if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare Continue reading
Encouraging News: Performance Pay in Harrison Gradually Gaining Teacher Support
I’m busy tweeting about the landmark first day of open union negotiations in Colorado’s third largest school district — Douglas County — so you’ll have to forgive a shorter post for today.
In my normal brilliantly childlike fashion, I jump at the opportunity to put together two topics I’ve written about recently. What are those two […]
Thomas Sowell: Obama lies about Supreme Court & health care
“There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be “unprecedented” after two centuries of countless precedents. In short, he is simply lying.” Continue reading
Thomas Sowell: Obama lies about Supreme Court & health care
“There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be “unprecedented” after two centuries of countless precedents. In short, he is simply lying.” Continue reading
Book Review: All the Devils Are Here
In the Antiplanner’s recent review of Margin Call, I wrote, “No bank secretly realized that mortgage-backed securities were worthless and unscrupulously sold them to unsuspecting buyers.” The authors of All the Devils Are Here would apparently disagree. Unlike most of the books about the financial crisis that the Antiplanner reviewed last year, which each tended […]
4/10/12
Newsletter April 10 2012
Dougco Board Proposes Teacher Raises, Performance Pay, & Ending Union Privileges
Colorado’s Douglas County school board once again has charted a bold course with its initial proposals for the upcoming open bargaining negotiations with the teachers union. Maintaining a healthy reserve in tight budget times, the Board is offering employees a raise, a restart of the forward-thinking performance pay system, a cutback of union privileges, and a recognition of teachers’ right to choose.
