Education Policy Center

2019 School Board Candidate Briefing Materials 0
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- October 8, 2019
One of the Education Policy Center’s primary goals is to educate local education leaders about important education policy issues, thereby equipping them to make smart, well-informed decisions in their school districts. As part of that effort, the Education Policy Center staff provide biennial education policy briefings to all interested school board candidates, regardless of political
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A Colorado School District’s Dubious Union Agreement Under Scrutiny 0
- EdisWatching.org
- September 9, 2019
Until a little over a year ago, public sector unions across the United States frequently employed the practice of collecting “fair share provisions” or “agency fees” from employees who had opted out of full union membership. These payments amounted to a prearranged sum of money designed to correspond solely to the costs of the union’s
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A Colorado School District’s Dubious Union Agreement Under Scrutiny 0
- EdisWatching.org
- September 9, 2019
Until a little over a year ago, public sector unions across the United States frequently employed the practice of collecting “fair share provisions” or “agency fees” from employees who had opted out of full union membership. These payments amounted to a prearranged sum of money designed to correspond solely to the costs of the union’s
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Teacher Safety Is School Safety 0
- EdisWatching.org
- August 27, 2019
The Colorado Department of Education annually records the number of serious behavioral incidents by students that occurred on school or district grounds. Individual school reports can be found on SchoolView.org. Similar practices have been adopted in many other states, and although these incident reports are valuable, in the vast majority of states they do not
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