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Denver Builds on Low-Income Charter Success Stories: Will Jeffco Follow Suit?0
- June 13, 2014
I’m not that old, so the thought of having a big red “Easy” button is rather appealing. According to my grown-up education policy friends, developing a high-quality education model and scaling it up to reach a huge number of kids is a far more challenging and time-consuming task. How do we take pockets of success […]
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Vergara Big Win for California Kids, But Should We Worry about Courts’ Role?0
- June 12, 2014
Yesterday it was belated high fives all around for a defensive legal victory here in Colorado, as a Denver judge dismissed a union-backed lawsuit to enshrine harmful tenure protections. For anyone in the K-12 education world who may have been sleeping under a rock for a few days, you may not have heard that good […]
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High Fives All Around: Colorado Union’s Pro-Tenure Lawsuit Shot Down 0
- June 11, 2014
I had planned to post this good news with you on Monday. But then sickness intervened. Not me, mind you. But the website itself was maliciously attacked, perhaps by someone who doesn’t like what this little kid has to say. Well, better late than never. And more to come soon. You hang around these big […]
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Jeffco Board Member Offers Tax Hike as Charter Funding “Compromise”0
- June 6, 2014
Another Jeffco school board meeting, another set of fun or crazy things to talk about. These meetings have become a regular kind of twisted entertainment for my family, I think. As best as I can tell, three big items went down last night. The Denver Post and some other major media focused on the finalized […]
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New ACE Study Opens Mind on Comparing Public, Private Schools 0
- June 5, 2014
Time flies when you’re young and enjoying early summertime fun. Why, it was only last week I told you all about the bad smell left by a new book attacking private schools with weak and questionable data. Thanks, Patrick Wolf and Education Next. However, in writing that post, I may have made a mistake. It’s […]
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Look at Private School Regulation Sells Choice through Scholarship Tax Credits 0
- June 2, 2014
I have my reasons for doing so. But today’s entry will be easy on both of us (unless perhaps you’re a legislator or other policymaker). The Friedman Foundation has done it again, releasing last week a thorough and thoughtful study of state regulatory impacts on private schools — before and after choice is enacted. So […]
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