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Foiled Again? Colorado School Finance Project Data Summary Skews Story0
- August 15, 2012
The Colorado School Finance Project (COSFP) has released its latest batch of funding data. The results include a significantly too-low spending figure and a misleading graph that rears its ugly head again, not to mention leaving out the all-important total spending per student figure. Leave it to little Eddie to play the foil and ground readers in some basic facts.
READ MOREWinters Just Made It Even Harder to Argue with Florida’s Education Success0
- August 14, 2012
Last time I wrote about Florida, it was touting their “silver medal” among the 50 states for growing student achievement in the past 15 years. The Harvard study that handed out the imaginary awards analyzed how much progress 4th-grade and 8th-grade students have made on the national NAEP test.
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Second place out of 50? Not too […]Eagle County Teacher-Technology Controversy Calls for Blended Learning0
- August 13, 2012
Several days ago Education Week published a story about a large Colorado school district replacing French and German language instructors with software-driven programs:
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Of all the recent budget cuts made by the Eagle County, Colo., school district —the loss of 89 staff jobs through attrition and layoffs, a 1.5 percent across-the-board pay cut, and the introduction […]
State Board OKs Two More Falcon Innovation Schools; One Banishes Tenure0
- August 10, 2012
When Colorado passed the first-of-its-kind Innovation Schools Act in 2008, observers knew that the law was primarily tailored to transform the most challenging campuses in Denver Public Schools (DPS). And so it largely has played out. No one else has matched the 24 DPS schools who have taken advantage of the Act’s process to transform […]
READ MOREHow Much Colo. Teachers Union Member Losses Tied to Greater Options?0
- August 9, 2012
Senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow offers some quotable insights regarding news that the Colorado Education Association membership numbers continue in significant decline over the past two years.
READ MORELocal Breakdown of Colorado K-12 Spending Further Highlights Need for Reform0
- August 8, 2012
Since I got so long-winded yesterday (and because I know you’re tired of me hammering on the school funding issue once again), today’s post is going to be a short one. I’ve recently pointed out that the statewide K-12 financial trends are not quite as dire as some have proclaimed. But what about at the […]
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