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  • Merit Academy: A Story of Perseverance

    Merit Academy: A Story of Perseverance0

    • May 8, 2023

    Merit Academy: A Story of Perseverance tells the eventful story of how citizens in the small community of Woodland Park realized a gap in educational options. Determined to meet the needs of families, they worked against all odds so that families wouldn’t have to drive their children long distances to other communities. Read about Merit

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  • Public School Choice and Authorization in Colorado

    Public School Choice and Authorization in Colorado0

    • 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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  • An Overview of Colorado K-12 Career and Technical Education

    An Overview of Colorado K-12 Career and Technical Education0

    • July 9, 2020

    Over the past several decades Career and Technical Education (CTE) has emerged as a robust avenue for promoting educational options for public school students ranging from those who would have been traditionally served by vocational education programs to college-bound students in high demand fields.

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  • 2019 School Board Candidate Briefing Materials

    2019 School Board Candidate Briefing Materials0

    • October 8, 2019

    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 smart, well-informed decisions in their school districts. As part of that effort, the Education Policy Center staff provide biennial education policy briefings to all interested school board candidates, regardless of political

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  • The undeniable efficacy of charter schools

    The undeniable efficacy of charter schools0

    • 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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  • Charter schools perform well, continue to grow quickly

    Charter schools perform well, continue to grow quickly0

    • August 26, 2016

    Every three years, the Colorado Department of Education publishes a comprehensive report on Colorado’s charter school sector. The 2016 State of Charter Schools report was published last month. The report – and its unsurprisingly encouraging findings – could hardly have arrived at a more critical juncture.

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