Amy Oliver Show: Teachers Have Options at Back-to-School Time
Tim Farmer from the Professional Association of Colorado Educators joins senior education policy analyst Ben DeGrow for back-to-school time to talk about declining union membership and other options for teachers.
Study: Nearly A Third Of Doctors Won’t See New Medicaid Patients
If you’re on Medicaid and looking for a new doctor, your chances are excellent of finding one … in Wyoming. Continue reading
A Model for the Nation
Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood says that Washington DC’s Silver line is a “model” for “other places in the country.” Let’s see: Is the line over budget? Of course. Will the new line disrupt service on other transit lines? Totally. Is the region building new rail transit lines even when it doesn’t have enough money […]
DeGrow Shares Insights on Tax-Funded Teacher Unions with New Mexico Watchdog
In his new investigative piece “Union Time on the Taxpayer Dime,” New Mexico Watchdog reporter James Scarantino included quotes and insights from senior education policy analyst Ben DeGrow concerning Education Policy Center research on tax-funded teachers union release time in Colorado
Winters Just Made It Even Harder to Argue with Florida’s Education Success
Last time I wrote about Florida, it was touting their “silver medal” among the 50 states for growing student achievement in the past 15 years. The Harvard study that handed out the imaginary awards analyzed how much progress 4th-grade and 8th-grade students have made on the national NAEP test.
Second place out of 50? Not too […]
The FDA: killing promising adult stem cell research?
But instead of serving as our protector against charlatans who prey on the sick and desperate, the FDA has itself become an agent of coercion, forcibly denying us the freedom to use treatments that could save our lives. Continue reading
300,000 Miles — Availability by 2017
Google says that its self-driving cars have now gone 300,000 miles with no accidents (except once when one of the cars was rear-ended at a stoplight). Google released the above video a few months ago in celebration of reaching 200,000 miles. Everything in it seems normal until the car parks in a handicapped parking spot. […]
Eagle County Teacher-Technology Controversy Calls for Blended Learning
Several days ago Education Week published a story about a large Colorado school district replacing French and German language instructors with software-driven programs:
Of all the recent budget cuts made by the Eagle County, Colo., school district —the loss of 89 staff jobs through attrition and layoffs, a 1.5 percent across-the-board pay cut, and the introduction […]
The Federal Governments War On Medical Innovation – Forbes
When you need advanced medical care in 2022, don’t let the government’s war on medical innovation restrict your doctor to today’s 2012 technology. Continue reading
How the Feds Put the Brakes on High-Speed Trains
It is an article of faith among passenger rail advocates that the federal government killed intercity passenger trains by subsidizing the Interstate Highway System. “There were a number of reasons for the rapid decline of rail passenger service, but the overwhelming factor was the explosion of government funding for new highways and airports,” says the […]
TABOR Endangered?
Die-hards attacking Coloradans’ constitutional right to personally vote on tax increases won an unexpected victory in federal court when Judge William J. Martinez found that their lawsuit is justiciable. That means the case can proceed to the merits. Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) was adopted in 1992, and has been tattered by hostile lawsuit […]
State Board OKs Two More Falcon Innovation Schools; One Banishes Tenure
When Colorado passed the first-of-its-kind Innovation Schools Act in 2008, observers knew that the law was primarily tailored to transform the most challenging campuses in Denver Public Schools (DPS). And so it largely has played out. No one else has matched the 24 DPS schools who have taken advantage of the Act’s process to transform […]
