Teacher’s Choice Video Celebrates Power of Options for Professional Educators
One of this website’s main themes is to celebrate — and to advertise — the various membership options available to Colorado teachers. In that spirit, the Association of American Educators and Choice Media TV have released the new 15-minute video Teacher’s Choice. This worthwhile, uplifting view profiles four teachers from different types of schools in […]
Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution
SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading
Movie Review: Margin Call
Margin Call opened four months ago, so this review isn’t exactly timely, but for readers who haven’t seen it, it purports to be about the 2008 financial crisis. Since the Antiplanner has written extensively about this crisis, I found the movie intriguing enough to watch the DVD. The entire picture takes place during about 27 […]
Colorado Has Made Some Progress, But a C for Teacher Policy Isn’t Good Enough
NCTQ’s new Teacher Policy Yearbook is out. While Colorado has made progress in some areas, especially related to evaluating teachers and dismissing ineffective instructors, we still have a ways to go in areas such as teacher preparation and paying educators based on performance rather than credentials. A C grade may be better than most states right now, but Colorado should aim for all As!
Independence Institute, Liberty on the Rocks Celebrate School Choice Week with Kids Aren’t Cars Movie
On Thursday, January 26, Liberty on the Rocks and the Independence Institute celebrated National School Choice Week by co-hosting a special event at the Independence Institute’s new Freedom Embassy in Denver. Attendees watched selected portions of the 2011 movie Kids Aren’t Cars. Afterward, the Education Policy Center’s Pam Benigno and Ben DeGrow shared some insights […]
Colorado SB 12-053: Why state insurance exchange should be repealed
The Citizens Council on Health Freedom recently sent out the following e-mail that summarizes key points about why repealing Colorado’s Health Benefits Exchange (SB 11-200) is a good idea: Continue reading
Breaking Down the Barriers
Leave it to the New York Times to put the most negative spin on a conference about driverless cars. “Collision in the Making Between Self-Driving Cars and How the World Works,” reads the headline. As the Antiplanner wrote three years ago, the main barriers to driverless cars are institutional and bureaucratic, not technological. So it […]
Abound Solar: still no jobs in Tipton, Indiana
How long will Abound Solar string along the good folks of Tipton, Indiana? In July 2010, President Obama announced a $400 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan to Colorado-based Abound Solar, the majority of which was intended to help the thin-filmed solar panel company expand to Tipton, Indiana. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation also provided $12 million in […]
Chickens come home to roost: Obama’s plan to cut federal aid to colleges that don’t limit tuition increases
I observe with some satisfaction that the higher-education establishment is finally learning that if you play with snakes you get bitten. It is no secret that academics were heavily in President Obama’s corner when he ran for President in 2008. Part of the reason was his commitment to transfer other people’s money to them—i.e., more […]
Another School Choice Trifecta: Jared Polis, Bill Cosby, Ben DeGrow… Swish!
Since yesterday’s school choice trifecta was so successful, why not another one to help bring a smashing conclusion to National School Choice Week? We’re in the heart of basketball season — it’s not March Madness time yet — but still “trifecta” gets me thinking about making that long-range jumper for student-centered education reform:
Yesterday, Colorado’s U.S. […]
DeGrow Celebrates School Choice Week on Mike Rosen Show
In honor of National School Choice Week senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow spent an hour with Colorado’s most listened-to radio talk program, AM 850 KOA’s Mike Rosen Show. They discussed national progress in the school choice movement, the Douglas County Choice Scholarship Program, and other education reform issues. Click below to listen: [January 26, 2012, […]
School Choice Week Good News Trifecta: Nationwide, Arizona ESAs, Ohio Vouchers
While School Choice Week has me in a happy frenzy, it doesn’t leave me as much time for blogging. But in my few spare moments, I wanted to share a few timely developments fitting for this week’s big festivities:
The Alliance for School Choice has released the latest version of the School Choice Yearbook… The big […]
