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Looks Like There Are Ways to Get More Great School Leaders on Board 0
- June 24, 2014
One of the main building blocks of a successful school clearly and undoubtedly is quality leadership. Just as clearly and undoubtedly, most school districts in Colorado and nationwide need more great principals to do more great things for kids. The problem is particularly pronounced in some of the largest urban school districts with the highest […]
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Florida Doubles Number of States with Cutting-Edge Choice through ESAs 0
- June 23, 2014
“And then there were two.” Usually that phrase suggests narrowing down the field, like moving to the championship round of your favorite sport with only the two finalists left to vie for the title. Or maybe like tomorrow in Colorado, it means narrowing down the field of major party candidates to one each. But today’s […]
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Accelerating Quality Colorado Charter Growth a Wise Idea, Not Just for Wonks 0
- June 19, 2014
Are you more likely to think of policy wonks as “wild and crazy” OR as “wise”? I know, it’s a difficult call. The Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli apparently has enough optimism to lean toward the latter. His new Flypaper post, “The wise wonks’ hierarchy of charter school quality” distills the insights of the blog’s recent […]
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Study Gives Another Jeffco Anti-Charter Myth a Serious Blow 0
- June 18, 2014
Tomorrow the Jeffco school board is set to cast a final vote on the 2014-15 budget. At the forefront of the discussion is the 3-2 majority’s proposal to share an extra $3.7 million of local property tax funds with public charter schools. Even though that would cut the gap in half, some still seem to […]
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CER Completes Trifecta of Helpful Scholarship Tax Credit Studies 0
- June 17, 2014
For those wild and crazy policy wonks out there, it’s been quite a past few weeks for reports that speak directly to the adoption of school choice through K-12 scholarship tax credits. And since I’m all pumped up these days trying to help more Colorado Kids Win, that’s about as fun as summer can be. […]
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Title I Funds Closer to Following Colorado Kids after State Board Vote 0
- June 16, 2014
Last week the Colorado State Board of Education took a relatively quiet action that may have profound results in years to come. The Board voted 6-1 to take steps toward redirecting a particular pot of federal Title I funds based not primarily on where students live, but rather on where they attend school. Title I […]
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