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Local school boards to Colorado board of ed: Butt out on charter schools
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For those who believe strongly in the premise of local control of school districts by the people elected to run them, the idea that the Colorado State Board of Education can overrule local decisions on charter schools rankles. Case in point: Jefferson County. Last year, the local school board gave grudging approval to a charter…
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A national study gives high marks to Colorado’s charter school laws
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Colorado is now No. 2 among all the states in a new report gauging the effectiveness of charter-school laws. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released it annual state-by-state rankings this week, “Measuring up to the model: a ranking of state public charter school laws,” and Colorado jumped three places since last year’s survey. From an alliance…
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Colorado’s public charter schools: not really privatized after all
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There’s election rhetoric, and there’s reality. Hence, the election mailers sent to Denver households recently accusing the incumbent Denver Public Schools board and administration of “ceding space to a for-profit charter school.” It’s no secret the Denver Classroom Teachers Association – the local union that helped fund the mailers through its donations to an independent…
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Q&A w/Nancy Spence: Her path was politics; her mission remains education
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Throughout her 14 years representing a broad swath of Arapahoe County in the General Assembly – three terms in the House, two terms in the Senate – Nancy Spence was something of a rarity among her peers at the Capitol. A Republican woman – a bit unusual in its own right at the legislature – who voted against the grain of her…
