democrats for education reform
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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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PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers
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Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…
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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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Outside political spending floods House and Senate primary races
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Independent expenditure committees (IECs), which include 527 political groups, have been on an unprecedented spending spree during the primary season on state House and Senate races. One candidate – Zach Neumann, who’s running for the Democratic nod for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Irene Aguilar – has been the biggest beneficiary, to the…
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NOONAN | Now’s the time to see who’s getting — and spending — in the guv’s race
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The Colorado governor’s race illustrates the new normal in campaign finance. Candidates need millions to win a primary. Six of eight candidates in the GOP and Democratic primaries have raised more than a million dollars. Victor Mitchell and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis have multiple millions through self-funding as of the most recent reports. Former state Sen. Michael…
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Democrats for Ed Reform’s Colo. leader didn’t lobby illegally, secretary of state says, but …
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The office of Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams has cleared the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) on a complaint accusing her of lobbying lawmakers at the state Capitol without being a registered lobbyist. But in a May 16 letter to DFER Executive Director’s Jen Walmer and former research director Jack Teter,…
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IN RESPONSE | Education reformers tried to hold Democrats hostage
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On April 14, 3,400 leaders and activists from across Colorado came together to proudly proclaim our long-held beliefs that all children in Colorado deserve an equitable public education. I am proud to have been the lead organizer for the state-level push and the author of the equivalent resolution passed at the Denver County Democratic Assembly…
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Unions have a stranglehold on public ed — while Colorado kids suffer
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Just in case there remained some doubt in anyone’s mind that the Democratic Party’s leftward lurch in Colorado was effectively divorcing the party from any affection it may have had for meaningful education reform, the party f aithful put those doubts to rest. At the Colorado Democratic Assembly two weeks ago, the participants not only…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, April 20 edition
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Elbows were flying across bruising internal rifts among Colorado Republicans and Democrats April 14 as thousands gathered to nominate candidates at the parties’ state assemblies. In Broomfield, a long-festering dispute between Democrats over education policy erupted during debate over the party’s platform. Delegates voted overwhelmingly to ban the organization Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) –…
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Former DPS candidate Tay Anderson withholds gubernatorial endorsement pending answers to ‘tough questions’
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Tay Anderson, the 19-year-old who lost an election for a Denver Public Schools board seat last month, says in a Facebook video posted Wednesday that he hasn’t picked a gubernatorial candidate yet – because none of the Democrats running have enunciated a specific set of progressive positions Anderson says are required to get his endorsement.…
