The dispute was not only about higher pay but also about widespread dissatisfaction with a merit pay system that advocates had hoped would transform the teaching profession…
Category: Education/Health
OPINION: A 21st Century Solution for American Morality
The United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us together, and by adopting the newer values of shared power and racial equity…
OPINION: Health Care in 2019, the Year in Review
While the ACA remains the law of the land, the current administration continues to take executive actions that erode coverage and other gains…
The Challenge of a New School Funding Formula
“I still see us rearranging the deck chairs and not increasing the money,” she said. “That concerns me…”
WHAT’S UP DOC? Comedy and Cooking at Natural Grocers
The class is called Cooking with Comedians and we look forward to sharing our love for healthy cooking and comedy — two topics we are very passionate about…
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part Seven
“As public workers, the idea has basically been you’re going to make less pay wise, but you’re going to make a better retirement package…”
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part Six
Many of us in Colorado are uncomfortable with corporate welfare in general — tax incentives and direct grants of taxpayer revenues given to big corporations, in the name of ‘economic development’…
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part Four
“During the 2016-2017 school year, CU’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services center provided more than 48,000 student mental health services, including group therapy sessions, psychiatry and walk-in sessions…”
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part Three
One might think — if one were thinking about such things — that an effective public education system would produce caring citizens who are able to listen to, and look out for, one another…
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part Two
We humans experience a certain sense of satisfaction when our expectations are met, especially if we’ve been waiting for a good while…
EDITORIAL: The Education Pendulum, Part One
We recognize, however, that through the long history of public education in America, young people typically entered the teaching profession for altruistic reasons…
EDITORIAL: Standardized Testing and School Security, Part Four
I wonder how “resignation” fits into the well-documented shortage of new teachers…
EDITORIAL: Standardized Testing and School Security, Part Three
The Archuleta School District has nevertheless decided to place police officers in school hallways, to prevent a crime that will almost certainly never happen…
EDITORIAL: Standardized Testing and School Security, Part Two
Will putting armed police in our school buildings actually help to keep violence out of the schools — or will it, in fact, insert a culture of violence into the environment?
EDITORIAL: Standardized Testing and School Security, Part One
“For ELA, we were at the 54th percentile, so right smack dab in the center, for the average ‘growth’ in the state. So our ELA program is delivering what a typical student in Colorado is getting…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Higher and Higher Education
Twenty years ago (1998) the University of Colorado at Boulder was charging $2,969 for tuition — no matter if you were in-state or out-of-state….
EDITORIAL: Wings Over Pagosa, Part Five
Phone calls to these mothers and grandmothers revealed that only four of the seven will still be operating as licensed daycare providers in 2020…
EDITORIAL: Wings Over Pagosa, Part Two
Even with a rent-free building, the sliding tuition scale at Seeds of Learning leaves the non-profit organization with an annual operating deficit of about $200,000…
EDITORIAL: Wings Over Pagosa, Part One
“We’re not going to be a daycare center; we’re going to be an educational center…”