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Establishing New Public Schools of Choice: An Alternative Pathway 0
- Charter Schools, Homeschooling, Issue Papers, School Choice
- July 8, 2025
Establishing New Public Schools of Choice: An Alternative Pathway highlights the role of educational service agencies, specifically Colorado’s Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), in authorizing alternative public schools of choice. The Education reEnvisioned BOCES (ERBOCES) is noted for its creation of brick-and-mortar schools, offering children additional educational opportunities. Yet, ERBOCES faced a legal challenge
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Municipal-Level Tax Credit Scholarships: A Way to Build on Existing Success 0
- EDUCATION, Issue Papers, Publications, School Choice
- April 7, 2025
Municipal-Level Tax Credit Scholarships: A Way to Build on Existing Success, authored by Senior Education Fellow Ross Izard, examines the potential of a municipal-level tax credit scholarship program to mitigate the disruption families experience when transitioning their children from private or faith-based preschool to higher grades. Such a program would build upon existing Colorado programs, such
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Ways Forward on Five Key School District Policies 0
- EDUCATION, Issue Papers
- July 22, 2024
The Education Policy Center has educated Colorado school board members about policy issues since 2005. Ways Forward on Five Key School District Policies is a publication designed to give school board members a starting point when considering five impactful policy changes. Each school district is unique and requires a tailored approach; therefore, numerous policy variations
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Colorado Foster and Kinship Children 0
- EDUCATION, ESA, Issue Papers
- November 15, 2023
Foster and kinship children too often miss out on supplemental services and activities. A new breed of program called a Supplemental Educational Support Account (SESA) would provide a set amount of annual funding for each student that can be used for services such as tutoring, therapies, music lessons, specialized programs, transportation, and a wide variety
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2023 Handbook on K-12 Policy Issues for Colorado School Board Members 0
- EDUCATION, Issue Backgrounders, Issue Papers, K-12 Issues, Publications
- October 16, 2023
One of the Education Policy Center’s primary goals is to educate local education leaders about important education policy issues, thereby equipping them to make intelligent, well-informed decisions in their school districts. Biennially, we update our K-12 policy issues school board member handbook to provide leaders with historical and current information from a common-sense perspective on
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Public School Choice and Authorization in Colorado 0
- Charter Schools, EDUCATION, Issue Papers, Publications, School Choice
- December 20, 2022
Colorado public school choice, while widespread, is limited by authorization processes and requirements that can be burdensome for new schools of choice, particularly when those processes involve hostile authorizing entities.
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