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Tag: Vouchers
Douglas County’s politically charged, voucher-driven school board election explained
On a recent Thursday evening, the eight candidates running for a seat on the Douglas County school board gathered on the same stage for...
Douglas County slate that favors continuing school voucher court case is...
A group of candidates that largely supports the direction of the Douglas County School District, especially its embrace of school choice policies, has raised...
Five things we learned when Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates got on the...
Nine Republicans and Democrats hoping to become Colorado’s next governor offered contrasting views Friday of the state’s public schools to an audience of more...
ALEC Day 2: Betsy DeVos says school choice “is good politics...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos became the first member of the Trump administration to visit Denver, speaking Thursday to a noontime luncheon at...
Colorado Supreme Court ordered to reconsider Douglas County school voucher case
The Colorado Supreme Court must reconsider its ruling against a private school voucher system created by the Douglas County School District, the U.S. Supreme...
U.S. Supreme Court to review Missouri case with ties to Douglas...
Update: the U.S. Supreme Court held full oral arguments on the Trinity case on Wednesday. Justice Sonja Sotomayor was the only Justice to question whether...
Weeks after DeVos praises school choice efforts in Denver, she slams...
Earlier this month, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was praising Denver’s efforts to support school choice. Not today.
Speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday, she...
Congressman Jared Polis is more worried about Congress than about Betsy...
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis worries more about Congress creating bad education policy than about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos enacting it.
But that doesn’t mean...
Trump calls education ‘the civil rights issue of our time’ —...
“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night.
The line inserted a bit of boilerplate — and bipartisan...
DougCo school voucher lawsuit nearing critical junction
Proponents of school vouchers in Douglas County have spent 16 months waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if it will consider their...