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Discrepancies from Dougco Beg Question: How Many Union Members Remain?0
- June 4, 2013
Douglas County School District continues to move forward with major system changes that recognize and reward performance in meaningful ways. And the press continues to pump up the controversy while leaving factual disputes unresolved. Today’s Denver Post turns attention to a DCSD elementary school where a principal misapplied the new employee evaluation standards, creating a […]
READ MOREDisgruntled Union Claims about Dougco Innovation Add Up to Politics, Not Truth0
- May 31, 2013
It’s Friday! Which means it must be time to provide some more clarity on the bold innovations taking place in Douglas County. Today provides a great opportunity to highlight a fairly balanced 9News story, making sure to emphasize and elaborate on some key points and add one or two others that may have been left […]
READ MOREIdentifying the Good Kind of Disruption in (Colorado) Blended Learning Innovation0
- May 30, 2013
When is it okay to be disruptive in class? Most teachers rightly would frown on the idea of little whelps like me acting out or speaking out of turn when a lecture or other class instructional activity is taking place. But disruptive innovation via the blended learning strategy is an entirely different matter. I’m talking […]
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Ray of Hope for True School Finance Reform in Post-Lobato Lawsuit Landscape0
- May 29, 2013
Understandably, some emotions have run high in the wake of the 8-year Lobato school funding case shot down by the Colorado Supreme Court. Taxpayers can be thankful that judicial sanity prevailed and a constitutional crisis was avoided, though, as the moment finally has come to look forward. Some say we need a billion-dollar education tax increase, but given a careful look at the funding facts, it’s time instead to take on the cause of real school finance reform.
READ MOREDisputed Dougco Evaluations? Don’t Turn Up the Heat, Just Share All the Facts0
- May 24, 2013
Update, 5/28: I took off for the long holiday weekend, and came back to learn that Our Colorado News had updated the article on the Trailblazer teacher evaluation controversy, addressing some of the shortcomings I identified. I’d like to thank them for making an effort to improve the story. If you can’t stifle dramatic local […]
READ MORESurprise! Perpetuating Power Top Priority for Teachers Union Leaders in Adams 120
- May 14, 2013
After a lot of recent attention, it seems to have grown awfully quiet this month in the Adams 12 school district. Two of four scheduled negotiation sessions with teachers union officials already have taken place, but beyond that it’s left to the open-ended curiosity of a perpetually precocious 5-year-old to try to guess what’s taking […]
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