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November 02, 2009 04:30 PM UTC

Monday Open Thread

  • 38 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”

–Neil Kinnock

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38 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread

  1. Even more utilized is inter district choice.

    http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1

    But some have questioned abuses by parents.  Some do not report their real addresses or home districts.  Some completely avoid reporting their status.

    In Denver Public Schools, 41 percent of the district’s estimated 75,000 students attend a school other than one in their attendance area, up from 34 percent in 2004.

    The numbers of DPS students “choicing” into schools continues to rise as the district’s diversification of school programs continues.

    [snip]

    “Our goal is in every neighborhood in every part of the city to have high-quality choices,” said Tom Boasberg, DPS superintendent.

    Since the early 1990s, when Colorado’s open enrollment laws were approved, students have been able to cross district boundaries to attend any school they like, provided the school has space and the students meet the requirements.

    [snip]

    The federal No Child Left Behind law saw that problem and mandates that districts transport children from low-performing, poor schools to better ones. About 1,000 children in DPS take advantage of the rule.

    Still, supporters of choice say the program has helped schools.

    “If there is no choice, then every school and every building has to figure out a way to be everything for everyone who lives in their boundaries,” said Jim Griffin, president of the Colorado League of Charter Schools. “We don’t expect that for other public bodies; why schools? It’s also made parents and students into consumers.”

    I’m sure there is some spin in here I missing that means we need more money for public schools.  Why Denver’s 80% Democrat performance voters don’t approve funding for public education at equity levels borne by say Alamosa residents is still an oddity.

    1. This is a true teaching moment: Imagine, people like having a choice.

      Now if only we could complete this circle and deploy a school voucher program.  Think of the upside at DPS where direct competition with private schools could bring in greater menu options to more taxpayers.

      With busing, hot lunches and all the other advantages over private schools DPS could attract even more market share with direct scholorship.  DC has been a terrific model for more Choice – Opportunity Scholarship Program – it gives poor students and their parents the ability to choose private or public schools in safe neighborhoods.  Imagine the value this Education Choice has given to DC students.

      1. I’ve been using it for years and they are well worth a second look. They often have books (out of print) that you can’t find anywhere else.  

    1. The book “Krakatoa” is positioned right next to the ad for Ann Coulter’s weekly column.  You gadda wonder which is going to erupt first spewing molten lava.  

  2. Try Bismark, North Dakota, who comes in at a low, low, 3.4%. They have a one billion dollar surplus that they are trying to figure out how to spend this year.

      1. save it for a rainy day, which is what they are also considering doing with it. Can you imagine? Saving money to put aside for an economic downturn? Crazy, huh?

      1. Congress and the Senate just makes me ill. He literally walked away from here after refusing to take any responsibility for his position.

        Gutless fucking coward.

  3. Former President Clinton unveils statue in Kosovo

    PRISTINA, Kosovo – Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo’s capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.

    Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO’s bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces’ crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_

    I know we’ve had heated debate about the use of Military Force and Nation-Building, but this is one of those examples of how things went right.  

  4. They wouldn’t give me a ballot. Since I moved October 5, and the deadline for registering was October 4, they said I was out of luck…

    Not that I was too terribly excited about voting in this election anyway. All my friends seem unhappy with all the choices.

    1. I didn’t know keeping your campaign promises dated you in the 1980’s, Libby.

      Funny thing – everything he’s mentioned he’s either proposed, investigated or started doing.

      Got nuthin’ today, huh?

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