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Tag: Charter Schools
Charter school funding fight shakes up Colorado school finance debate
When state Sen. Owen Hill proposed an amendment to Colorado’s annual school funding bill, he told his colleagues on the Senate Education Committee no...
The state tried to save one Colorado school before and failed....
A neighborhood school serving mostly black and Latino students had been failing for too long. Despite an all-out effort to boost test scores —...
Guest post: Jeffco school district’s no means no
NOTE: The Colorado Independent occasionally runs guest posts from government officials, local experts and concerned citizens on a variety of topics. These posts are...
Jeffco school board to look at Walton Foundation-backed charter
The Jefferson County Board of Education Thursday will take a first look at an application for a new charter school backed by the family...
Douglas County Schools narrows down finalist list for interim superintendent to...
The state’s third-largest school district this week named a charter school founder with no experience leading a public school district as the sole finalist...
Reader’s view: Charter schools aren’t dodging Colorado laws
Golden View Classical Academy parent Floyd Borakove wrote to The Colorado Independent in response to Marianne Goodland's May 1 story, "How charter schools are dodging Colorado laws."
The Colorado...
Charter funding fight ends with compromise, defeat of two bills as...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Todd Engdahl on May 10, 2016
A House committee decision to kill two charter school bills Tuesday ended the...
Lawmakers rebuke party leaders, reject charter school funding compromise in Senate
Lawmaker differences over charter schools and unhappiness with K-12 funding came to a boil late Thursday when senators finally took up the state’s annual school funding bill after a number of false starts.
How charter schools are dodging Colorado laws
Educators say people without college degrees, including high schoolers, are teaching in Pre-K through fifth grade classes at the Community Leadership Academy, a publicly...
Charter schools make bid for more local funding
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Todd Engdahl on April 7, 2016
Charter school advocates Thursday launched an effort to gain what they call a...