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Chieftain Highlights Institute’s Billboard Message to Pueblo Teachers0
- August 14, 2014
The Pueblo Chieftain features coverage of a special Independence Institute billboard message notifying local teachers of their limited opportunity to avoid paying union membership or non-member “representation” fees.
READ MOREBillboard Alerts Teachers to Union Deadline0
- August 11, 2014
A new Independence Institute billboard in Pueblo tells teachers about their limited opportunity to stop paying money to the union, while a new poll released today by the Independence Institute shows more than 82 percent of Coloradans support allowing union employees to leave their union without force or penalty.
READ MOREPueblo Teachers (& other K-12 Employees): Options to Get Union Money Back End Sept. 150
- August 11, 2014
A new billboard in Pueblo shares a special local message for National Employee Freedom Week. Teachers and other local school district employees only have until September 15 to make important membership-related decisions that could save them more than $700 for the 2014-15 school year.
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Evaluation Valuation: Goals, Issues, and Questions for the Coming Year0
- August 5, 2014
To students like me, teachers are mythical creatures. Sure, I see them every day, but I can’t see behind the proverbial curtain. I don’t know how they judge their success or failure in different areas, how well they are serving their students as a whole, or how they communicate information about their teaching performance to […]
READ MOREBlended Learning Takes Flight in Colo. Districts: How High Will It Soar?0
- July 17, 2014
The great blended learning experiment continues its historic ascension in our beautiful Rocky Mountain state. Independence Institute education senior fellow Krista Kafer has documented it better than anyone. Last year it was The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado. Apparently, the not-so-long-ago, cutting-edge sphere of blended learning has not just made it past the […]
READ MORECan Someone Help Me Understand this Third Way on Masters Bumps?0
- July 15, 2014
It’s been awhile, but one of my favorite K-12 topics to share with you is the need to change the practice of automatic pay raises for master’s degrees. As recently as 2011, the high-quality research was unanimous (34-0) on the ineffectiveness of awarding teachers masters degrees. As recently as last month, it remains “one of […]
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