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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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NOONAN | Democratic women voters blow the top off the state primaries
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Democratic women vote. Pay attention. That’s the biggest message from the recent Colorado primary. Democrats and Dem-leaning unaffiliated voters as a whole outvoted the GOP 56% to 44% by the numbers. Democratic women outvoted Democratic men 60% to 40%. Democratic women outvoted GOP women 58% to 42%. Democratic women outvoted GOP men 56% to 44%. It’s unprecedented.…
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Bill to prevent 529 savings from being used for K-12 wins first approval in House
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Parents who want to tap into 529 savings accounts to cover K-12 private education – thanks to a change in a federal tax law that would allow it – might face tax headaches in Colorado. House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been trying to work out how Colorado law handles a change…
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This Week at the Capitol: March 26-30
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Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead at the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. Click here and scroll down to committee hearings to listen online. This week, the House will take up the Long Appropriations Bill, which is scheduled to be…
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Craig Hulse goes from Uber to uber-education reform
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Ready Colorado, the conservative champion of school choice that is growing its profile on the state’s political scene, has tapped ride-sharing giant Uber to recruit a new vice president. The education advocacy group announced Monday it has hired Craig Hulse, “a widely respected policy and legislative expert” who most recently was Uber Technologies’ public affairs…
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Americans for Prosperity Colorado to try one last time to save voucher program in DougCo
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Is there any way to save the Douglas County voucher program from its all-but-certain demise on Monday? Americans for Prosperity Colorado (AFP), which spent “six figures” during the election season trying to persuade voters to support the then-board majority’s reform efforts, announced Friday it would try. David Ray, president of the Douglas County board of…
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DougCo school board likely to move quickly on voucher repeal
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The clock is ticking for a decision by the Douglas County School District Board of Education on its controversial voucher program. The election earlier this month of four anti-voucher candidates reshaped the board from 4-3 in favor of vouchers to 7-0 against, means that the voucher program is all but certain to be trash-canned –…
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Spending by outside groups alone for Colorado school board races exceeds $2 million
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Outside groups trying to sway voters with mailers, phone calls and yard signs on the Colorado’s two most controversial school board elections have now spent more than $2 million, with more than $1 million spent in a little more than two weeks in October. The spending has strongly favored pro-charter candidates in the races for…
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Gloves come off in DougCo’s hotly contested school board race
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Douglas County Republicans have come out swinging following news this week that a national teachers union has contributed $300,000 to an independent expenditure committee supporting a union-friendly slate of school board candidates in the upcoming election. The cash windfall comes from the American Federation of Teachers, whose local affiliate Douglas County Federation of Teachers lost…
