"Board member Mark Emery suggested that (board attorney Brad) Miller has an agenda shaped by religious and political leanings that’s created turmoil for the district." Ya think? #COleg #COpol

Another clue that charter schools are about real estate deals, not education: "Clark plans to talk to nearby companies that might want some or all of it for their headquarters. He said he could also see it as a charter school or as a storage facility for high-end cars." #COpol #COleg

"Given the staggering profits made by non-profit and for-profit charter schools, it should come as no surprise that charter school authorizing entities have frequently renewed contracts for charter schools across the country even when 'results' are poor year after year." #COpol #COleg

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"Charter schooling is now an industry, not a public school reform." #COleg #COpol

Just a reminder that Colorado ranks in the bottom half of states for per-pupil funding, behind Wyoming and Nebraska. #COleg #COpol

Houston Supt. Mike Miles helped broker a nearly $1M deal for HISD-style reforms between a Texas charter network and for-profit Colorado-based charter consulting firm he started. #COleg #COpol

"If the Supreme Court were to agree that Riverstone Academy in Pueblo County, Colorado, is allowed to get public funding and offer religious education, it opens up the possibility that this could happen anywhere in Colorado or the country." #COpol #COleg

"In late October ... Pueblo County health, fire, building, and zoning officials cited more than a dozen violations and put the school on 'fire watch,' which requires someone to patrol the school every half hour to look for signs of fire." #Coleg #Copol

"Once public schools are cast as broken beyond repair, charters and microschools become steppingstones toward something far more consequential: a broad voucher system that redirects public money to private and religious education." #COleg #COpol

"With the Trump administration ... slashing funds appropriated to our schools, a principal rationale for standardized testing is gutted. The previous threat hanging over districts and the state was a loss of federal money. Trump and CMAS supporters have lost that leverage." #COpol #COleg

"We can still incubate good ideas, but we should do so where they belong: inside the public system, with the sunlight, stewardship, and community voice that public money requires." #COleg #COpol

One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students. (Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)

"The pushback from advocates of charter schools, which many Republicans support, also underscores just how difficult it will be to get Congress to fully eliminate the Education Department." #COpol #COleg

Charter School Flimflam Documented tultican.com/2025/12/31/c...

Be warned, Colorado #COpol #COleg

Groundbreaking Report by National Center for Charter School Accountability - Support for charter schools has dropped dramatically, from 7 in 10 Americans in 2013 to 46% today. Part II of the Charter School Reckoning report explains why. networkforpubliceduc...

When charter schools seek to evade accountability, they switch from district oversight to CSI. #COpol #COleg

"Lotus School of Excellence is a public charter school, meaning it's tuition-free and publicly funded. It also means employees typically have more protections under the Constitution than private schools or other private employers." #COpol #COleg

The MAGA/progressive Dem charter alliance was always a marriage of convenience. #COleg #COpol

Opinion: Take note, Gov. Polis: Coloradans have repeatedly said no to school vouchers

"A bill that aimed to create more accountability ... was killed in committee after public opposition by Gov. Jared Polis – who has launched his own charter schools – and intense lobbying by Americans for Prosperity, political arm of the right-wing network formed by the billionaire Koch brothers."

If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck ... @colorado.gov just forced an unwanted voucher program on Colorado residents.

It’s, of course, a charter school. #CharterSchoolFail prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...

"It’s also true that many of our public schools, well, suck." Really? Isn't school choice supposed to make all public schools better? Is it possible that draining tax $$$ to private schools/charter schools simply makes them worse? #COleg #COpol

"When asked in October by Chalkbeat if she’d known about Riverstone’s religious affiliation when she voted on it, Ochs first said no. The next day, she called back and said she knew the school planned to use Christian curriculum, but added, 'to me that doesn’t make it a religious school.'” #COpol

If you believe this money is going to flow to kids who need it, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. #COpol #COleg @colorado.gov @bennet.senate.gov @philweiser.bsky.social

"The Freedom From Religion Foundation vows to remain vigilant in the face of coordinated attempts in three states to establish the nation’s first religious charter school." #COleg #COpol

Charter schools get lots of love from the MAGA administration. #COleg #COpol @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.bsky.social

The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation #COpol #COleg @michaelbennet.bsky.social @hickenlooper.bsky.social

Shameful groveling to the billionaire class, @colorado.gov #COpol

Let's elect a Colorado governor who stands strong against vouchers and other education privatization scams. @philweiser.bsky.social @philforcolorado.bsky.social @michaelbennet.bsky.social @bennet.senate.gov

Hey, look! Colorado's taxpayer-funded religious school is catching some national attention. This will please the MAGA faithful. #COleg #COpol @colorado.gov @philforcolorado.bsky.social @bennet.senate.gov

Here's the beginning of the end for Colorado's public schools. Don't think so? Just look at existing voucher states. #COleg #COpol

Aspiration: Less regulation of charter schools will unleash innovation. Reality: Less regulation has resulted in mismanagement, profiteering, and scams. #COpol #COleg

A must-read: "In order to give SCOTUS the opportunity to rule in their favor, the advocates need a case which fits the bill; a case to drive home a parents’ rights interpretation of the due process clause. Here in Colorado, they think they have at least two." #COpol #COleg

Charter school fraud, Idaho-style. #COpol #COleg

Here's how the classical charter school scam works in Florida, with a boost from MAGA Republicans ... #COleg #COpol

It was only a matter of time after SCOTUS split 4-4 on the constitutionality of religious charter schools in May until we got the next test case. Per this story, there are actually two cases in the works. Barrett likely the deciding vote, so 1st Amend. church-public school separation in jeopardy.

Sterling Ranch parents wanted a school. They are about to get a "liberty-based charter school" with strong Christian nationalist vibes. #COleg #COpol

​Investigation opened based on campaign finance complaint against Colorado lawmaker

"Some will argue this is only one leader’s excess. That response ignores the incentives built into a model that ties school growth and charter renewal to political capital." #COleg #COpol

Plenty of Colorado connections found among the billionaires funding school privatization efforts. #COleg #COpol

“This is not in spite of the advocacy,” Marrero told the board last Thursday. “It’s based on our lived and hard-earned experience when it comes to granting expansion without a clear facility plan. We’ve been burnt in the past, quite frankly. It just simply doesn’t work.” #COleg #COpol

"Pleas for transparency"? I'm shocked. #COleg #COpol

Things that make you go "hmmmm ..." #COleg #COpol

NEW: DougCo's lame duck GOP school board just failed to pass a 10-year renewal for all charter schools after one member of the conservative majority voted no (Tim Moore). The measure to protect charters from scrutiny by the incoming Dem/moderate board fails, per @spencersoicher.bsky.social.

Turns out Colorado's "first public Christian school" is all a set-up for an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit. @philweiser.bsky.social @bennet.senate.gov #COleg #COpol

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

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