Blaine's Shadow: Politics, Discrimination, and School Choice
- March 29, 2017
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An Examination of Colorado and Federal Laws Regarding Transgender/Gender Noncomforming Students and Employees0
- October 3, 2022
School districts have been adopting polices regarding the rights of LGBTQ students and employees. On September 1, 2022, Independence Institute’s Education Policy Center hosted a webinar titled: An Examination of Colorado and Federal Laws Regarding Transgender/Gender Noncomforming Students and Employees. Eric Hall, a Colorado Springs attorney with Sparks Wilson, P.C., explained what the law requires
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Curriculum Transparency: A Must for Effective Parent-Teacher Partnerships0
- April 29, 2022
Due to extended periods of virtual learning, heightened social tensions, and extensive media coverage of a variety of hot-button issues, parents have taken a keener interest in the business of their children’s education than at any other time in recent memory. Parents have demanded more access to information regarding which curricula schools adopt, which educational
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How a Colorado school board race has national implications for education and religious liberty0
- July 30, 2017
A wise man once said that all politics is local. Nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated than Douglas County, Colorado, where education politics and an ongoing constitutional fight over educational choice have converged to create perhaps the most consequential school board election in modern American history. Here, in a largely suburban county thousands of miles removed from the national stage of Washington, D.C., the futures of tens of thousands of students across America may well be decided.
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Blaine’s Shadow: Politics, Discrimination, and School Choice0
- March 29, 2017
More than three dozen states have some type of Blaine clause in their state constitutions. These problematic clauses prohibit government aid to “sectarian” institutions. Though this language has been euphemized to stand for the “separation of church and state,” such an outlook misinterprets the religious protections outlined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution
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Seniority policies put excellent teachers’ jobs at risk0
- December 17, 2016
Effective teachers are the lifeblood of education. More than any other school-related factor, teachers have deep and lasting impacts on students’ futures. But despite the power of effective teaching, nearly half of Colorado’s unionized school districts are operating under negotiated policies or agreements that place students’ educations and excellent teachers’ jobs at risk by unlawfully prioritizing simple seniority, or length of service, over performance in layoff situations.
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Masters v. School District Number 10
- June 9, 2016
The Independence Institute has long been a champion of tenure reform, local control, and flexibility in the realm of school and district personnel decisions. In 2010, the Institute was part of a broad, bipartisan coalition supporting Senate Bill 191, Colorado’s teacher evaluation and tenure reform bill. It continues to defend SB 191’s critical reforms from both
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