douglas county schools
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Douglas County should expand, not limit, educational freedom
It’s becoming harder for opponents of education freedom to come up with legitimate reasons families should not have more options when deciding the best possible education options for their children. The U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult with a pair of recent rulings, including one that said denying approximately 500 families in Douglas County the ability to…
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Colorado’s Catholics mobilize against the state’s ‘Blaine amendment’
At first blush, it seems like an innocuous restatement of bedrock public policy: “No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.” That’s Article V, Sec. 34 of the…
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Colorado’s school voucher battle heats up again as DougCo case gets a new lease on life
It has been two years since the Colorado Supreme Court said “no” to a Douglas County School District voucher program that would have defrayed the cost of private-school tuition – including at parochial schools – for parents who sought that alternative. The court’s majority held that the state constitution included, “broad, unequivocal language forbidding the…
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Educators: In Colorado, more school protection helping students learn
When two students went on a deadly 1999 shooting rampage at Columbine High School, it not only shocked parents, students and teachers, it had a lasting impact on education. Copycat threats across the country have forced lockdowns and orders for teachers and students to shelter in place, and parents, teachers and students have spent a…
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Noonan: Testing, student bullying, school funding rustle end-of-session restless
Thousands of Colorado students opted out of the state’s Colorado Measure of Academic Success tests over the last couple of weeks, with at least one Douglas County high school at 800 students who took a pass, according to a well-placed source. High school CMAS/PARCC tests are only for ninth graders. During testing weeks, school work…