Author Archives: Matt G

The ‘dark money’ behind the lobbyists opposing a Colorado charter school accountability bill

On March 7, three Colorado legislators introduced a charter school accountability bill to establish improved guidelines for authorizing and renewing charter schools by local school districts. The bill would strengthen the authority that elected school boards have regarding their governance of charter schools, and it also provides citizens with expanded information about the operations of […]
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CURMUDGUCATION: 60 Minutes Asked Moms for Liberty The Right Questions

Reporter Scott Pelley gets right to the heart of several issues. The difference between giving parents the tools to control what their own children can read (something the district also provides in spades) and trying to control what other parents can let their children read. The outrage-enhancing technique of treating isolated mistakes as proof of some widespread conspiracy.
— Read on curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2024/03/60-minutes-asked-right-questions.html

Gateway Elementary to be closed, students moved | Pikes Peak Courier | gazette.com

Less than six weeks after the announcement that the middle and high schools would be consolidated into one facility, another Woodland Park school is being shut down.

Gateway Elementary School will be closed next year, the Woodland Park School District announced on March 1. No classes will be held at Gateway next fall.
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