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Colorado’s K-12 Testing Debate: What Should Stay and What Should Go?0
- January 30, 2015
If there is a single word that defines the 2015 K-12 education conversation in Colorado and the United States, that word is “testing.” While testing and evaluations help set critical floors for quality, smart reforms can lift students even higher.
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Performance-Based Pay to Attract the Best and Brightest Teachers 0
- November 6, 2014
For Greeley and other districts, the potential of performance pay demands less talk and more action.
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Pressing Forward with Scholarship Tax Credits in Colorado 0
- September 11, 2014
Although programs increasing school choice through private investment have a strong legal track record, opponents continue pushing back in the courts. Their determined attacks shouldn’t deter Colorado families seeking better schools. The New Hampshire Supreme Court delivered good news with an Aug. 28 ruling reinstating the Corporate Education Tax Credit. The two-year-old program reduces a
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Colorado Charter Schools Serving Students and Families Well 0
- July 31, 2014
More Colorado families are choosing their children’s educational path than ever before. As of last year, charter schools were serving 11 percent of Colorado’s K-12 public school students. That’s more than 96,000 charter students attending more than 210 charter schools.
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Union Flailing against Improved Student Outcomes, Empowered Teachers 0
- July 10, 2014
The thousands of delegates who gathered in Denver last week for National Education Association’s annual Representative Assembly felt more than just the summer heat. A continuing loss of members and some major rebukes from the courts has kept on the pressure. Still, the nation’s largest teachers union refuses to change its tune. Rather than police the profession and respect individual teacher rights, the politically powerful NEA is trying to change the subject.
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Let’s Stop Shortchanging Colorado’s Charter Schools 0
- May 15, 2014
Parents who choose a charter school are learning their children most likely are being shortchanged. While recent moves in Colorado would make progress toward evening up funds for charters, the quest for equity still has a long way to go.
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