Category Archives: School

Financial mess

September 22, 2008 – 11:39 am

Given the recent mess that’s been made of the financial markets, a little digging is being done by folks all over. Bloomberg’s Kevin Hassett has done his own digging into the beginning of the end for Fannie May and Freddy Mac.
Fannie and Freddie became, “the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-mortgage pools.”
trillions of dollars in […]

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Not supposed to happen?

August 24, 2008 – 6:13 am

According to whom? The wrong group of people is responsible for making decisions about our children. Of course it’s supposed to happen - that’s what they’ve planned (even if they didn’t realize it).
In grade four, U.S. students out-perform their international peers in 65 percent of participating countries in math and science. In grade eight that […]

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Well, yeah…

August 23, 2008 – 7:07 am

that’s what I said.
Union misleading public regarding original intent of ProComp
In purely economic terms, it’s hard to understand why the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and Denver Public Schools remain at loggerheads as they argue the details of a new contract before a federal mediator.
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The union’s stance is difficult to square with ProComp’s initial objectives.
There’s the […]

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Good riddance to bad rubbish

August 22, 2008 – 10:49 am

Vince Chowdry has finally resigned from the Jefferson County School Board. If that name is familiar to you, he’s the … person convicted of 3rd degree assault on his daughter. The Jeffco Board of Education asked Vince Chowdhury to resign by July 25th. It only took him a month to realize what was going on […]

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Pay for performance

August 14, 2008 – 10:29 pm

Four years after Denver teachers ratified a performance-pay system — considered unprecedented by national educators — the much-praised model is at the center of a debate that has led to discord and possibly a strike.
The issue? Surprisingly, its not (entirely) that some teachers aren’t paid enough. It’s that some teachers - first year teachers, […]

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