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SLOAN | If only spending more on schools led to a better education
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Last November, voters in School District 51, over in Mesa County, approved a mill levy override which increased property taxes by something like $6.5 million annually for 10 years, ostensibly to pay for classroom improvements and instructional expenses otherwise denied by an emaciated local budget. Well now word comes that changes enacted by the district…
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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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Q&A with Karen Middleton: It all comes down to equal treatment for the sexes
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The #MeToo movement must seem like déjà vu to Karen Middleton. The former state lawmaker, longtime education policy wonk, self-described “fierce feminist” – and nowadays, point person for abortion-rights advocacy in Colorado – took her seat in the legislature a decade ago in the wake of the Capitol’s last big sexual-misconduct scandal. It was her…
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NOONAN: Gun violence in schools mixes up education politics, unions and the 2nd amendment
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My family has lived in the Columbine High School neighborhood since 1983. Like House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, everyone in my family, my next door neighbors, and my block felt the horror of so much tragedy and heartbreak so close to home. In that bloody 1999 year, over 20 murders occurred within a one mile…
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Chalkbeat’s election post-mortem reminds us it’s all about the ground game
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Chalkbeat Colorado’s Nic Garcia offers a post-game analysis of last week’s school board elections that serves as a primer for political junkies and campaign tacticians of every stripe. Garcia dissects the highly successful efforts of teachers unions to regain ground they had lost to education reformers in three high-profile school districts – Denver’s, Aurora’s and…
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19-year-old Denver Public Schools board candidate Tay Anderson: ‘I’ll continue to fight’
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Soon after the first round of results had posted at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, Auontai “Tay” Anderson, a candidate for a northeast Denver school board seat, spoke to the crowd gathered to watch election night returns at a popular food incubator in Denver’s trending RINO neighborhood. Anderson, a May graduate of Manual High School –…
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Education savings accounts: Where the money follows the student
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Imagine for a moment that Colorado families could decide how and where their children are educated. Families are free to spend their tax dollars as they choose. This could include tutoring, online courses, or even school tuition. And whatever is not spent now could be saved and accumulated from quarter to quarter, or school year…
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Smith: Anti-NAFTA AMLO, Mexico’s next president?
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Now that the Trump administration has initiated the process of renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), let’s hope that this process is marked by thoughtfulness and not rhetoric like the president’s earlier comments that NAFTA was “the worst trade deal in history.” Despite the anti-trade rhetoric, NAFTA has been a great success, resulting…
