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The Ignacio Market Driven Compensation Plan and Why It Fell Short0
- March 3, 2005
Colorado local school boards, unlike those in many states, determine their districts’ salary schedules. Most school districts pay teachers strictly according to the number of years served and the amount of postgraduate educational credit and degrees attained. Notable exceptions include Douglas County R-1, which has operated a performance pay system for teachers since 1994, and Denver Public Schools, which awaits a November 2005 vote on a mill-levy increase to approve funding for its “ProComp” plan. But the Ignacio School District 11JT in southwestern Colorado went a step further when it unveiled a unique and innovative teacher compensation proposal in February 2003.
READ MORETake Public Funds off the Negotiating Table: Let Teachers’ Unions Finance Their Own Business0
- February 5, 2004
Colorado school districts reroute many thousands of taxpayers’ dollars into the hands of the teachers’ unions every year, by granting paid release time for representatives to attend union activities and by financing union presidents and other officers to take extended leave from regular duties. This funding is done primarily through collective bargaining agreements but also through school board policies and administrative practices.
READ MOREThe Wrong Kind of Self-Employment: Keeping District Employees off Colorado School Boards0
- January 31, 2004
Colorado’s state legislators and local education policy makers should clarify the status of public school boards as representatives of the public interest. The law should reflect the fundamental incompatibility of a person simultaneously serving as an elected board member and paid employee for the same school district.
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Should Colorado School Districts Stop Collecting Political Funds?0
- January 31, 2004
While teachers in Colorado are not required to belong to a teachers union, five school districts deduct an amount equivalent to union dues out of every teachers check, whether she joins the union or not. The burden is placed on the teacher to opt out every year during a window of time. If the teacher misses the deadline, the funds are taken out of the check every month and will not be refunded. This is claimed to be a voluntary authorization.
READ MORECutting Back on Catching Up: Reducing the Need for Remediation in Colorado Higher Education0
- December 17, 2003
A recent study by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education reveals that 26.6% of Colorado public high school graduates entering Colorado public higher education in 2002-2003 were assigned to remediation, and of those:
READ MORECutting Back on Catching Up0
- December 12, 2003
Remediation in college for high school graduates cost the state an estimated $18.9 million, at least, in the 2002-2003 school year. This was roughly 55.1% of the total cost of educating remedial students.
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