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Confining pro-charter conditions destroying Colorado public schools | NOONAN
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Our public school system is injured by a thousand cuts. At year end, our most dear institutions are confronted with a lawsuit over book banning, a lawsuit over termination of a middle-school dean defending books, districts threatening educators with termination, and authorization of a tax grab and land grab by two charter schools in the…
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Colorado Department of Education challenges funding eligibility for ‘first public Christian school’
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EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story reported that Riverstone Academy was a charter school. Because it is authorized by the Education ReEnvisioned BOCES, it is considered a contract school rather than a charter school. A new school, touted as the first public Christian school in Colorado, is facing pushback from the state education…
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Colorado justices agree school district co-ops cannot locate facilities outside borders without consent
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that cooperative associations of school boards lack the power to open facilities outside their boundaries in school districts that do not consent to the placement. Under Colorado law, boards of cooperative services, or BOCES, allow for school districts to band together and contract for additional services among their…
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10th Circuit reinstates dress code discrimination lawsuit against Colorado Springs charter school
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed on Tuesday that a boy could pursue his claims of sex-based discrimination against a Colorado Springs charter school after he was disciplined for wearing earrings under a boys-only prohibition on the accessory. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit determined a…
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10th Circuit reinstates dress code discrimination lawsuit against Colorado Springs charter school
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed on Tuesday that a boy could pursue his claims of sex-based discrimination against a Colorado Springs charter school after he was disciplined for wearing earrings under a boys-only prohibition on the accessory. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit determined a…
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Colorado justices skeptical of education co-ops’ ability to locate schools outside boundaries
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court gave a chilly reception on Tuesday to the idea that school boards, when organized into regional cooperatives to provide educational services, may locate facilities outside their boundaries over the objection of a local district. Under Colorado law, boards of cooperative services, or BOCES, allow for school districts to band…
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Colorado justices skeptical of education co-ops’ ability to locate schools outside boundaries
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court gave a chilly reception on Tuesday to the idea that school boards, when organized into regional cooperatives to provide educational services, may locate facilities outside their boundaries over the objection of a local district. Under Colorado law, boards of cooperative services, or BOCES, allow for school districts to band…
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Colorado justices skeptical of education co-ops’ ability to locate schools outside boundaries
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court gave a chilly reception on Tuesday to the idea that school boards, when organized into regional cooperatives to provide educational services, may locate facilities outside their boundaries over the objection of a local district. Under Colorado law, boards of cooperative services, or BOCES, allow for school districts to band…
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All charter school decisions from state board are final, Supreme Court rules
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected a reading of state law that would enable some of the Colorado State Board of Education’s decisions on charter school applications to be challenged in court, finding instead that the law renders all decisions final and unappealable. The justices reversed a ruling from the Court of Appeals, which…
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State Supreme Court to hear cases on charter schools, for-profit college lawsuit
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The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases implicating the government’s ability to deny applications for charter schools and for Good Samaritans to receive compensation for injuries they suffer during a rescue. The justices also announced on Tuesday they will review a complex and long-running consumer protection lawsuit against a for-profit college, which…
