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Let’s Figure Out How PERA Can Fit Into Colo. School Finance Reform Debates 0
- February 21, 2013
The long-awaited draft of the big school finance reform bill (144 pages in all its glory) is finally here this week. You can rest assured I will have more to say in the coming days as my Education Policy Center friends dig more deeply into it. For now, I just have to say how glad […]
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Transparency and a Collaborative Mirage: A Tale of Three Colorado School Districts 0
- February 20, 2013
A clever wag once famously said: “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.” Some other smart-aleck might have reason to make a similar remark about K-12 education: “Collaboration is district leaders and union leaders deciding how to spend taxpayers’ money.” Except that those taxpayers too often are left in […]
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Latest Dougco Lawsuit Suggests Little Beyond Need for Presidential Limelight 0
- February 18, 2013
Since it’s Presidents Day today, it seems somewhat fitting to write about a local teachers union president seeking some limelight with a Friday lawsuit: The Douglas County Federation of Teachers filed two lawsuits Friday, alleging that the Douglas County School District illegally didn’t consider teachers for job openings after being laid off and that it […]
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Heartbroken by Choice Bill Defeats, Hoping for Some Scholarship Tax Credit Love 0
- February 15, 2013
It was heartbreaking to see the death of a couple more Colorado bills that would have expanded choices for parents and opportunities for students. But we would love to see leaders embrace scholarship tax credits, for all the benefits they have been shown to bring in other states. Those benefits Colorado might enjoy include improved achievement, satisfied parents, and tax dollar savings.
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Research Ought to Give Second Thoughts about Government Preschool Programming 0
- February 14, 2013
It’s been almost two years since I last brought your attention to the overwhelming research findings that the nearly-50-year-old Head Start program has not made a real difference in education outcomes. But a new Wall Street Journal story by Stephanie Banchero points out that some federal officials appear intent on doubling down. In an article […]
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Use Real School Funding Facts and Tell the Story that Empowers Families 0
- February 13, 2013
A few weeks ago an article by the I-News Network (“an independent, nonprofit journalism project that creates long-form investigative reports, in partnership with major daily newspapers and has recently accepted significant funding from wealthy Democrat activist Tim Gill”) portrayed Colorado minorities as victims of inadequate tax funding of education: Regardless of which way the causal […]
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