Tag: Education Reform
DougCo student activist Grace Davis’ coming of age
Grace Davis is many things: a 16-year old incoming junior at Ponderosa High, a member of her church’s youth group, school choir and golf...
Littwin: Blame Julie Williams for Colorado’s education “reform” fail
It's probably not altogether fair to put the stunning defeat of so-called education "reformers" around the state on Julie Williams, but let's do it...
Parents mobilize to save Aurora Public Schools
Only five out of ten students will graduate in the Aurora Public Schools. Of those, two will go on to college; one will need to take remedial...
What the Board of Education chair’s turbulent departure says about Colorado...
If thousands of kids protesting and lawmakers staying up until all hours trying to hash out workable compromises on testing reform didn't tell you that the state of public education in Colorado is pretty contentious these days, than the abrupt resignation of newly-elected state Board of Education Chair Marcia Neal confirms it.
Republicans ready to rain on Democrats’ planned sunny-day legislature
DENVER-- If you can measure anything by opening day speeches, the ones given in the House here today suggest the 2014 legislative session is...
Colo. school board election recap: Voters stick with market-based experiment
It was a clean sweep for the public education "reform" movement in Colorado this week, as market-based school-choice candidates prevailed in the Denver and Douglas Counties school board races being watched by education wonks around the nation.
Wiretap: Teaching Republicans how to talk about gays
Is it too soon to talk about 2014? Of course not. According to the Washington Post, Republicans are already trying to tutor their candidates how to talk about gays. You think word has gotten to Colorado?
VIDEO: Bennet implores senate not to play politics with education reform
Colorado US Senator Michael Bennet seems to love his job as much as he hates the senate. That is, he seems to relish the opportunity to make change that matters as much as he reviles the fact that senate rules and procedures and politics work against anyone making any kind of change at all. On Wednesday he said something just like that but more eloquently in a speech on the Senate floor, when Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican, invoked one of the chamber's myriad arcane rules to stall debate on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, legislation Bennet has helped write and that would remake the controversial "No Child Left Behind" act.
Teacher tenure ‘juggernaut’ bill clears Senate, faces tougher battle in House
SB 191, the teacher tenure bill that has divided traditional political allies and made for strange-bedfellows in the State Legislature this session, passed on...
Denver Tries to Close Schools, Save Kids
Denver Public Schools officials announcing the closure of eight schools had explained that they weren't taking questions from the public. But the woman in...