charter schools
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Charter school aimed at Black students misses enrollment target, won’t open in Denver this fall
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A charter elementary school centering Black students won’t open as planned in Denver this fall. 5280 Freedom School did not enroll enough students for next school year, and the Denver school board isn’t considering giving the charter school more time. The refusal is a departure from past practice and emblematic of the increasingly tough outlook…
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In other states, more Democrat governors, more skepticism of charter schools
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was not on the ballot in the Michigan governor’s race, but her legacy loomed over the campaign in her home state, which has the country’s highest concentration of for-profit charter schools. Republican Bill Schuette, a DeVos ally and the state’s attorney general, ultimately lost to Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat and former…
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NOONAN | Guv-elect thumbs nose at his party’s neighborhood school advocates
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Paula Noonan Mark Twain said, “I am dead to adverbs, they cannot excite me.” Gov.-elect Jared Polis didn’t get that message. He named his transition team website: “Boldly Forward.” Boldly forward heads badly backward is more accurate. Individuals on Polis’s transition team for education policy highlight the governor-elect’s in-your-face rejection of what almost all parents in…
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Voucher-backing Ready Colorado rates legislature on education reform
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Colorado House and Senate Republicans got the best grades for the 2018 legislative session in a scorecard released Thursday by conservative education reform backers Ready Colorado. State Sen. Owen Hill of Colorado Springs and Rep. Paul Lundeen of Monument (who hopes to be in the Senate come January) both got top marks from the group,…
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‘All families have the right to choose the best educational options for their children’
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How interesting – no, how ugly – were the teachers unions’ pro-Cary Kennedy attack ads during the Democratic primary against Michael Johnston and even Jared Polis. Their crime? They dared to discuss parental choice in education. Middle- and upper-income parents who are dissatisfied with the public school to which their children are assigned have the…
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NOONAN | Democratic women voters blow the top off the state primaries
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Democratic women vote. Pay attention. That’s the biggest message from the recent Colorado primary. Democrats and Dem-leaning unaffiliated voters as a whole outvoted the GOP 56% to 44% by the numbers. Democratic women outvoted Democratic men 60% to 40%. Democratic women outvoted GOP women 58% to 42%. Democratic women outvoted GOP men 56% to 44%. It’s unprecedented.…
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Big-name charter school backers donate to key governor races
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Prominent charter school supporters are dishing out campaign money, as key gubernatorial races in several states have now begun in earnest. June primary contests set up a number of state battles for governor in the midterm elections this November, with both Democratic and Republican candidates that could change how public resources flow into charter and…
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SLOAN | Only in the Democratic primary would education reform carry a stigma
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The Democratic primary race for governor of the state of Colorado took on a certain air of the surreal in the waning days of the contest. It began a few weeks back when a group supporting Cary Kennedy ran what one presumes was supposed to be an attack ad against both Jared Polis and Mike…
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Q&A with Bob Gardner | Policy maven, military veteran, school-choice champion
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There’s an old wisecrack that members of Colorado’s House of Representatives lob at colleagues who get elected to the state Senate – that the move will raise the average IQ of both chambers. While senators of course are quick to offer a second opinion on the well-worn quip, one thing they and their House counterparts…
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Denver’s charter schools serve as example during congressional hearing
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WASHINGTON – Denver’s charter school program won encouraging comments Wednesday during a congressional hearing. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is trying to decide whether to support an expansion of charter schools. The committee also wants to determine whether the programs should be modified to make them more effective. Charter schools are primary…
