school choice
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GOP sees inroads as Latino Republicans secure victories in Colorado
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As Colorado’s more heavily Hispanic areas aligned with national exit polling that found growing support for Donald Trump among this demographic this year, voters also elected several Latino Republicans in tight races. Political observers said these victories offer the GOP the opportunity to boost and solidify its gains among Latinos, who, even with their shift toward…
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Colorado’s 14 ballot measures include abortion, hunting, ranked choice voting
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Secretary of State Jena Griswold officially certified the 2024 election ballot on Sept. 10, which includes 14 statewide ballot measures. The legislature referred half of the constitutional amendments and propositions, while citizens initiated the rest. Proposals that seek to change the Colorado Constitution require 55% of the vote to pass, while statutory measures require a…
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State Supreme Court drops case over parental deadlock in school choice
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The Colorado Supreme Court will not hear an appeal that questioned whether judges may decide where children are to attend school when their divorced parents cannot agree. The court’s dismissal of Hakiowskie Flores’ petition came after a Jefferson County judge reluctantly agreed with a recent decision out of the state’s Court of Appeals that found…
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Fight over bid to strip school-choice provision from foster-kids bus law
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Senate Republicans Wednesday mounted a furious effort to amend a bill that would strip out what’s viewed as school-choice language from a 2018 law that pays for foster children to be transported to their original schools when they’re uprooted from one home to another. Update: Thursday, the Senate voted 19-16 along party lines to advance…
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Lack of transportation, conflicting deadlines put school choice out of reach for some, study finds
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More Colorado students use school choice to opt into traditional district-run schools than use it to attend charter schools. Those who do so are more likely to be white and middle- or upper-class than their peers. And transportation continues to be a barrier for students who want to go somewhere other than their neighborhood school.…
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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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Q&A with Craig Hulse | An uber-operative jumps into Colorado’s public ed debate
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Upstart conservative advocacy group Ready Colorado didn’t exactly tiptoe into the state’s Great Education Debate a few years ago; it hit the ground running. As we noted last fall in a Q&A profiling Ready President, Luke Ragland, the formidably funded, politically attuned organization aimed to be much more than another voice at the table. It entered…
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Hickenlooper expects suit over school-choice language in bill for foster children
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed House Bill 1306, which is intended to allow foster children avoid being shuttled from one school to another. But he’s definitely not happy about it. The bill deals with the problems foster children experience with school when they move from one placement to another. Under current law, a…
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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…
