August, 2015 - Independence Institute

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- August 20, 2015
Education Policy Center Newsletter August 20, 2015
In this issue
— Back-to-School Week Brings Drama, Politics in Jeffco
— A(nother) Fight for the Future of Colorado Education Reform
— New Paper Shows Colorado Student-Based Budgeting on the Rise
— Institute Celebrates Third Annual Employee Freedom Week
— Educational Choice Marches On
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Colorado Teachers Should Know Their Rights to Leave the Union 0
- August 20, 2015
Busy back-to-school days present the only chance for many teachers to leave the union. But they can’t exercise the right if, like many Colorado workers, they don’t know it exists.
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August 20 Colorado Energy Roundup: Poll shows Coloradans not impressed by Clean Power Plan, fracking ballot measures expected, #greenjobsfail, and EPA/Animas River saga continues 0
- August 20, 2015
This week the Independence Institute released the results of poll concerning the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and who Coloradans feel does a better job when it comes to guarding the state’s environmental quality–folks here prefer Colorado oversight to meddlesome DC regulations: The poll was conducted August 9-10th and found those surveyed more likely
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Freedom Minute: College Board Revamps AP U.S. History Framework 0
- August 19, 2015
Education policy analyst Ross Izard takes a look at the changes made to this year’s Advanced Placement U.S. History framework, and what those changes tell us about last fall’s “censorship” controversy in Jeffco.
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Thompson, Jeffco, and the Battle for the Soul of Colorado Education 0
- August 19, 2015
I’m not exactly a fortune teller, but every now and then I surprise myself with my prescience. Last May, I wrote a post just before Thompson’s second vote on an only slightly revised version of the first junky tentative agreement brought back from the negotiating table. The post was called “Thompson Gears up for the […]
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New York Charter Success: You Know How to Spell It 0
- August 18, 2015
It’s often been said “you can’t argue with success” (or Success). But that doesn’t stop some from trying. Last year, I pointed out the collective jaw-dropping that took place when test results came back from students in the Harlem Success Academies, a New York City charter network that overwhelmingly serves poor and disadvantaged families. Just […]
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