Public Schools of Choice: Key to Colorado Education Reform
The first wave of education reform in the 1980s has been largely superficial.
To be really effective, the second wave of reform must be structural.
A system giving parents their choice among public schools would do much to drive substantive reform — without involving private schools and the church state issue.
Home Education in Colorado: Clarifying Parents' and Children's Rights
Home schooling is an educational model whereby the primary academic instruction of children takes place in the childs home, generally by one or both parents but sometimes by another family member or an outside tutor. It was a common means of educating children in early American history.
During much of the twentieth century, home education was practically unheard of in many circles. But during the past decade it has become perhaps the most widely growing phenomenon in American education, including the state of Colorado.
Avoiding An Automatic Tax Increase In 1987
The State of Colorado will collect more than $250 million in higher income taxes from individuals and businesses in 1987 as a side-effect of federal tax reform.
Taxpayers face an average increase of 33% unless the legislature acts.
This shortfall in family budgets has been misleadingly described as a “windfall” by the spending lobbies, leaving many Coloradans thinking the money will come from Washington rather that their own pockets.
How Independence's 'Election Watch' 86' Urged Candidates and Voters Toward A More Issue-Oriented Campaign
While few Coloradans liked every outcome in the 1986 elections, and fewer still liked the raucous tone of many campaigns, it could have been worse. There was at least one new voice on the state political scene this year doing its best to help frame the voters’ choice around issues — rather than around personalities, partisanship, and 30-second spots.
Why Not an Economic Miracle for Colorado?
Why Not an Economic Miracle for Colorado?
Fitness Idea For Metro Transportation: Put RTD On A Tax Diet
Fast, efficient, and economical movement of people and goods within the Denver metropolitan area is important to the economic health of the entire state and region. Improving the transportation system of the West’s regional hub was the goal when mass transit operations were transferred from private to public ownership 16 years ago. But it is now difficult to argue that the Regional Transportation District is progressing toward the goal in any meaningful way.
Convention Center: Who Gets, Who Pays, And What To Do The Morning After
“Shall the City and County of Denver construct a convention center near the Denver Union Terminal in the Central Platte Valley with at least 300,000 square feet of exhibition floor space, with the capaility of being expanded incrementally to a total of 600,000 square feet of floor space?” This is the ballot question in Denver’s October 15 referendum.
