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  • A Couple More Weeks of Waiting for School Finance “Grand Bargain” Details0

    • January 31, 2013

    Back in early December my Education Policy Center friends helped put on a State Capitol event, laying out ideas for dramatic “backpack funding” reforms that need to be at the heart of this year’s keystone school finance debates. We’ve been waiting awhile now to see what Senator Johnston’s “Grand Bargain” legislation might look like. I […]

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  • LaHood’s Legacy0

    • January 31, 2013

    As the Antiplanner noted yesterday, Ray LaHood’s lasting legacy as Secretary of Immobility is the loosening of requirements for major transit capital grants in new rules issued a few weeks ago. This is most important for streetcar fans, since the Bush-era rules pretty much predetermined that streetcars were not a cost-effective use of federal transportation […]

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  • On This Measure of Charter School Laws, Colorado Ranks 4th… Not Bad0

    • January 30, 2013

    Keep those education policy grades a-rollin’ in! Not even two weeks since I shared with you that the Center for Education Reform placed Colorado 10th nationally for the strength of its charter school law, here comes another rating. The ever-growing National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) has released its fourth annual ranking of state […]

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  • Amy Oliver Show: School Choice Week Celebrates Colorado Options0

    • January 30, 2013

    Education Policy Center director Pam Benigno highlights local School Choice Week events and shares how Colorado parents can take responsibility and learn about their educational options. Colorado has a legacy of public school choice through open enrollment, a process through which the Independence Institute’s School Choice for Kids website can help guide parents.

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  • Goodbye Ray LaHood0

    • January 30, 2013

    Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood has announced his intention to leave office as soon as a replacement can be found. Aside from an admirable emphasis on safety, LaHood’s main legacy will be a weakening of the cost-effectiveness requirements for transit grants so that, now, the most ridiculously expensive transit projects can get federal funding. As […]

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  • It’s Hard to Get Beyond Emotion in Legislative Debates on School Safety0

    • January 29, 2013

    School safety is a big deal. I don’t write a lot about it, partly because big people say I’m not “mature” enough yet to understand it all. But after hearing one of my Education Policy Center friends interview a school board member about a legislative bill he supports, I had to put a little something […]

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