Three Bills on the Charter School Front: Some Important Tweaking, and a Major Survival Measure
House Bill 1113 makes major improvements in charter school finance. SB 52 helps charter schools take advantage of computers; and SB 100 frees charter schools from the grip of anti-consumer school districts.
Charter schools prove to ardent education reformers the oft repeated aphorism that politics is the art of the possible. While some in the reform camp would have much preferred vouchers and others the embrace by the education establishment of a rigorous, coherent, cognitive based mission, it is the Charter Schools movement that has caught on. It is Charter Schools that represent the best, most realistic hope of shifting the balance of power away from education providers to education consumers.
RTD's Competitive Contracting Program: Cost Savings Produce More Service, Attract More Passengers
The competitive contracting program, which requires RTD to contract out 20% of its services to private contractors, has reversed RTD’s previous trend of increasing costs. The cost savings from competitive contracting has enabled RTD to improve service, resulting in the largest ridership gain of ant of the nation’s largest 25 bus systems. If the legislature raised the percent of RTD services which can be competitively contracted to 35% or more, the benefits to metro Denver mass transit users would be all the greater.
Safe Storage Is Unsafe Regulation
Colorado State Senator Pat Pascoe wants to make gun owners criminally responsible for the unauthorized use of their guns. As is the case with much of the rest of the plague of legislation that seeks to micromanage what people do and when they do it, this, too, is for the children. Fourteen children shot to […]
