School Board

The Grown-Up in the Room: DPS Board Candidate Emily Sirota

Nancy Cronk | Posted 12.21.2011

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Nancy Cronk

Above all the din of the warring factions, one rational, knowledgeable voice continues to bring voters back to the reason the school board exists: doing what's best for the children and families of Denver.

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Why Didn't Americans for Prosperity Love Our Video?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.16.2011

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Robert Greenwald

The Koch brothers -- founders of the Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity -- were the subject of our latest investigative video, "Why Do the Koch ...

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District Cuts Ties With Superintendent For Ties To Atlanta Cheating Scandal

AP | Posted 10.09.2011

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DeSOTO, Texas -- A Dallas-area school board voted Monday to sever ties with its new superintendent, who was caught in the fallout of a test-cheating s...

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No More Education Excuses

Emily Sirota | Posted 10.02.2011

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Emily Sirota

America is engaged in a major debate over the future of education -- a debate that has been marked by a lot of overheated rhetoric and divisiveness about politics, but not enough substance about how to fix our schools for our kids.

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A Conversation With Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard

Lorraine Forte | Posted 07.10.2011

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Lorraine Forte

From a journalist's standpoint, the most refreshing news to emerge from Catalyst Chicago's recent interview with incoming Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard was his promise to be transparent.

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Rocks and Hard Places -- Is That Where You Want Our Kids?

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The education of our kids is beyond all political labels. It is worth stepping up and defending a system that will give everyone's kid a running start into adulthood and allow this country to prosper.

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I Saw a Different SOTU

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

As the soaring rhetoric of President Obama told the nation how we are going to out-educate the world, my local school board was talking about how they dismantled a Transitional First Grade Program.

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UPDATE: School Board Gunman Had Shooting Date Planned

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Clay Duke was a troubled, broke ex-con with bipolar disorder, an interest in anarchy, a wife whose unemployment benefits had...

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Bible Belt Bravado: The Beat Goes On

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Schweitzer

Tennessee has decided to use taxpayer dollars to teach the Bible in public schools. If fundamentalists insist that we teach the Bible in school, then let us teach the book in all of its bloody, misogynous, murderous, fratricidal glory.

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Colorado Friendly To Charter Schools

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | EMILY ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colorado charter school laws are the seventh best in the nation, according to The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based charter school...

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