Ben DeGrow

Drumroll, Please: The Great Testing Debate of 2015 Nears Conclusion 0
- May 5, 2015
This is it, my friends. We have entered the final phase of the Great Testing Debate of 2015 as the legislature speeds toward the finish line. We’ve been talking about testing since the session began back in January (and even before then), but it looks like we’re nearing the end of the discussion. While we […]
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Unity is Strength: Independence Institute Staff Take the Plunge and Unionize 0
- April 1, 2015
You know, maybe I’ve been too hard on teachers unions. Just this year, I’ve celebrated their declining membership rates, poked fun at their colossal loss of money in the 2014 election cycle, and had a little too much fun reliving an extraordinarily entertaining “battleflop” by Jeffco’s local teachers union. Who can blame me? My big […]
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Keeping the Conversation Going: Independence Institute’s New National School Choice Week Video 0
- February 12, 2015
I’ve spent a lot of time at the Colorado State Capitol over the last month or so. Committee hearings, meetings, awkward hallway loitering—you name it, this little guy has done it. But by far the most fun I’ve had under the golden dome was the National School Choice Week rally last month. I hope you […]
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Courts Should Not Mess With School Funding 0
- October 26, 2009
Colorado’s top judges have opened the door to re-crafting our school finance system from the bench when they should have avoided the possibility altogether.
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