Dems slap restrictions on state’s ability to approve new charter schools

Posted on February 1st, 2007

ColoradoSenateNews.com
Sen. Nancy Spence, the Senate’s assistant minority leader and a longtime advocate of charters and other public education reforms, denounced the bill as, “yet another attempt to undermine parental choice in education simply to preserve the interests of school bureaucracies.”
A measure being denounced as an assault on charter-schooling did not come up for action as […]

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Democrat Bill limiting charter schools moves to Senate floor

Posted on January 29th, 2007

A Democrat bill that targets charter schools passed out of the Senate Education Committee Thursday over strong Republican opposition.
Senate Bill 61, authored by Sen. Sue Windels, D-Arvada, effectively undermines the state’s chartering authority, Republicans charged. The measure also limits the type of students schools are allowed to enroll, shutting out many of the kinds of […]

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