Controversial Schultheis public schools religion bill ends in a whimper
DENVER-- A controversial bill that sought to expand space for religion in Colorado's public schools failed to make it out of committee Monday. Even before the hearing began, the bill's sponsor, Christian conservative state Sen. Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, seemed to have accepted the fact that his "Public School Religious Bill of Rights" would very likely fail to pass and so offered amendments that significantly weakened its provisions. In the end, so little was left of the bill that the majority Democratic committee members said it simply offered no new provisions on the matter. In the end, the four Democrats voted against the bill and the three Republicans voted for it.
Tancredo and Boyles rail against the conquering mutliculturalist mindset
Former Congressman and anti-illegal immigrant firebrand Tom Tancredo in a radio-show conversation with conservative Colorado talky Peter Boyles Thursday said that multicuturalism is not...
Stimulus funds aimed at rural areas dumped into metro regions
Nearly a quarter of the stimulus aid assigned to rural areas— most of it in loan guarantees for home buyers— has actually gone to...
Visit the mall, buy a t-shirt, check on your kids’ report card
Aurora parents who want to know how their children are doing in school can now head to the mall-- to the Town Center at...
Miklosi to postpone illegal immigrant in-state tuition bill
State Rep. Joe Miklosi, D-Denver, told the Denver Post that he will wait another year to introduce legislation to offer in-state tuition to illegal...
Report: Education system a mystery for lack of media coverage
A December report from the Brookings Institution decries the lack of education coverage in today’s media. According to the report, only 1.4 percent of...
Norton wins over Tea Partiers with call to eliminate Department of Education
Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton said she was spurred to try to win Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet's U.S. Senate seat by what she sees as the dramatic expansion of government in the Obama era. In stump speeches, emails and interviews, she has vowed to work to cut federal spending as a way to end the "government takeover" of the private sector. One of the ways Norton proposes to trim spending is to eliminate the federal Department of Education. That dramatic proposal has predictably shocked members of the left-leaning Colorado politics-blogosphere, but it also surprised at least one conservative member of the small crowd gathered two weeks ago at the Lamplighter restaurant in Alamosa, where Norton reportedly first unveiled the proposal.
For charter school extra credit: What’s the difference between accommodating and cheating?
Last week, the Colorado Department of Education released an outside audit of standardized testing procedures at Pueblo's Cesar Chavez Academy. In essence, the audit...
Rep. Judd to go after business subsidies, ‘wipe out’ enterprise zones
In the face of the state's mounting budget crisis, state Rep. Joel Judd plans to introduce two bills next month that would dissolve tax-free business "enterprise zones" and that would levy taxes on services across the state. "The question is: Do we provide education for children or do we get to go to a salon without paying a tax?" he told the Independent.
Controversial DPS board member Merida blogs her secret swearing-in
Andrea Merida made headlines November 30 for secretly finding a judge to swear her in before a Denver Public School board meeting so that...