Education Policy Center

From Human Events to Campus TV: Rounding Up Amendment 66 0
- EDUCATION - K-12 Funding
- November 11, 2013
Senior education policy analyst Ben DeGrow chronicled the demise of Amendment 66, the billion-dollar tax increase, for a national audience with a debut column published November 8 in Human Events: Close observers were almost unanimously stunned by the force of the blow that capsized Amendment 66. The proposal to raise state income taxes by a
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DeGrow Comments on Jeffco School Board Change 0
- EDUCATION - Latest on K-12 Issues
- November 8, 2013
On the November 6 edition of 9 News, senior education policy analyst Ben DeGrow shared his thoughts on where Jefferson County Schools might go in the wake of a surprising election of three conservative reform candidates to the five-member board: …he does not believe that everything happening in Douglas County will make its way into
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Amy Oliver Show: Amendment 66 Goes Down, Reformers Win School Board Seats 0
- EDUCATION - Latest on K-12 Issues, EDUCATION - Radio & Podcasts
- November 7, 2013
Ben DeGrow reviews the good news from election night, including the demise of Amendment 66 and the strong showing of many pro-reform school board candidates across Colorado.
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New NAEP Math and Reading Scores Leave Me Longing for More Reform 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - School Choice, EDUCATION - Teachers
- November 7, 2013
The elections are over. I’m out from underneath the rock. It’s nice to see the sunshine again, to see that Amendment 66 was rejected (let’s think Kids Are First instead), and the reform message carried many major school board races. Time to shift gears, though, with the release of 2013 results from NAEP, the nation’s […]
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