Colo.’s Parent Trigger II Survives First Test: Maybe HB 1149 Can Win Bipartisan Support

by Eddie | 5:01 pm, February 7, 2012

My Education Policy Center friends asked me to stop playing around in the snow long enough to give a quick update and comment on something I mentioned last week. As Ed News Colorado reports, Rep. Don Beezley’s “Parent Trigger II” successfully passed its first obstacle with a favorable 7-6 party line vote in the House [...]

Happy Digital Learning Day, Colorado!

by Eddie | 11:09 am, February 1, 2012

I’m still catching my breath from an amazingly successful National School Choice Week, including the Kids Aren’t Cars movie night put on by some of my friends right here in Denver.
And now today it’s the first-ever Digital Learning Day, centered at a site where you can participate in a live chat and watch a [...]

Colorado Has Made Some Progress, But a C for Teacher Policy Isn’t Good Enough

by Eddie | 5:30 pm, January 30, 2012

Now that School Choice Week is over, and I’m able to relax a bit after my manic phase of hyperactivity, it’s back to the (fun) edublogging grind. Right out of the gate, it’s time to tackle an important education reform item that emerged last week but falls a little bit outside the school choice arena. [...]

School Choice Week Good News Trifecta: Nationwide, Arizona ESAs, Ohio Vouchers

by Eddie | 3:38 pm, January 26, 2012

While School Choice Week has me in a happy frenzy, it doesn’t leave me as much time for blogging. But in my few spare moments, I wanted to share a few timely developments fitting for this week’s big festivities:

The Alliance for School Choice has released the latest version of the School Choice Yearbook… The big [...]

Foundation Gives High-Performing Poorer Denver Area Schools Cause to Celebrate

by Eddie | 12:59 pm, January 24, 2012

Today’s lead story at Ed News Colorado highlights the disparity in private parent and community giving within Denver Public Schools. Reporter Charlie Brennan notes that no school raked in more than the nearly $230,000 at Bromwell Elementary, a school with a low 8 percent study poverty rate. The general findings are no surprise, yet nonetheless [...]

NY NAACP Lawsuit and Lobato Ruling: Don’t Let the Outrage Get You Down

by Eddie | 2:08 pm, January 20, 2012

Has it really been almost three months since I told you about a new Choice Media video on the Douglas County Choice Scholarship program injunction? Well, award-winning director Bob Bowdon has triumphed again with this hard-hitting, six-minute video about the New York City NAACP’s lawsuit trying to remove a charter school that successfully serves inner-city [...]

Seeing Stars: SOPA Strike Begins

by Randall Smith | 7:00 am, January 18, 2012

Today will be filled with stories of all the web sites that are going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. I’m just as opposed to SOPA as everyone else but if everyone shuts down, where will everyone else get their information? Oh, right. Twitter.

On to th…

No Excuses Time: Attend a Colorado School Choice Week Event (January 22-28)

by Eddie | 3:21 pm, January 13, 2012

The second annual National School Choice Week is coming up soon. It’s almost time to stop gearing up and to start getting into action. For most of my fellow Coloradans, there aren’t any good excuses to not be able to attend even of the numerous events going on during the week of January 22-28:

On Thursday [...]

No Excuses Time: Attend a Colorado School Choice Week Event (January 22-28)

by Eddie | 11:58 am, January 13, 2012

The second annual National School Choice Week is coming up soon. For most of my fellow Coloradans, there aren’t any good excuses to not be able to attend even of the numerous events going on during the week of January 22-28, from a Kids Aren’t Cars movie night at the Independence Institute’s new Denver digs to two American Exceptionalism townhalls with nationally-known speakers and a special Saturday morning event designed just for teachers. I hope to meet you at one of them.

A+ Denver Report Gives More Evidence that Charter Franchises Are Getting It Done

by Eddie | 5:10 pm, January 12, 2012

Just a quick post today. More good news emerging from DPS today. Ed News Colorado highlights an intriguing new report from A+ Denver that breaks down some key performance data from the state’s second-largest school district:
This report shows that Charter Management Organizations (charter organizations that manage more than one school, currently DSST, West Denver Prep [...]

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