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  • Public Schools of Choice: Key to Colorado Education Reform0

    • November 16, 1987

    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.

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  • Home Education in Colorado: Clarifying Parents' and Children's Rights0

    • April 1, 1987

    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.

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  • Avoiding An Automatic Tax Increase In 19870

    • December 12, 1986

    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.

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