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Power Technical: Preparing Educated and Ethical Leaders in the Trades 0
- January 27, 2020
Power Technical (PTEC) is a career and technical education-focused public charter school in the James Irwin Charter Schools network. Authorized by Falcon District 49, the school serves students from across the Colorado Springs area who choose to pursue an education built around preparation for careers in skilled trades.
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New Publication About a Rural Charter Public School 0
- February 20, 2019
Colorado rural charter schools make up approximately 14% of all charter schools statewide. The challenges rural school districts face are frequent topics of discussion in education policy circles, such as: funding, facilities, and a shortage of teachers. Rural charter schools often face the same challenges as their authorizing public school district. These charter schools also
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Paradox Valley Charter School: Twenty Years On, Choice Survives 0
- February 20, 2019
Colorado rural charter schools make up approximately 14% of all charter schools statewide. The challenges rural school districts face are frequent topics of discussion in education policy circles, such as: funding, facilities, and a shortage of teachers. Rural charter schools often face the same challenges as their authorizing public school district. These charter schools also
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SBE Tie Vote on Classical Academy Means BVSD Decision Stands 0
- February 14, 2019
Today, Ascent Classical Academy Flatirons lost its second appeal to the State Board of Education on a three to three party-line vote. The Boulder Valley School District’s decision to deny the charter stands. In the first appeal to the SBE, Democratic member Val Flores crossed party lines and voted in favor of the school. It
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Educational opportunity is a family-wide benefit 0
- June 4, 2018
How does expanded educational opportunity impact families in terms of expectations, habits, and aspirations? This central question too often gets lost in purely data-driven debates about private school choice programs. Given the early evidence, perhaps it is time to change that. Longstanding public policy debates often begin to take on a strange feeling of deja
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The undeniable efficacy of charter schools 0
- October 17, 2017
Two studies were released this month from universities in California that demonstrate the effectiveness of school choice and the need for more options in education.
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