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Will Aurora’s school board race serve as another referendum on charters?
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If so, the local teachers union’s endorsement of four candidates reminds us where the battle lines are drawn. According to Chalkbeat Colorado, at least five of the nine candidates in the largely urban Aurora Public Schools board race this fall have expressed varying degrees of opposition to the proliferation of public charter schools. And on…
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Noonan: Colorado’s students get gruel for academic fuel
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Colorado’s public school students are on an Oliver Twist funding diet of gruel without milk. They’ve been on this “let them eat mush” meal plan since 2009-10 when the state’s education economy tanked. Most kids don’t achieve to their potential on gruel. Here’s the factual, no-nonsense dollars-and-cents data points underlying stagnant graduation rates, increasing drop-out…
