Colorado Charter School Watch
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Former CO Springs super and charter chain founder Mike Miles' "Houston Miracle" looks like a shell game: Pushing students to remedial classes. #COpol #COleg
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
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I call BS. Look at the methodology: Its stellar higher ed system earned Colorado its top spot. Same with 3rd-ranked FL, where K-12 schools are a disaster but destruction of higher ed is under way. #COpol #COleg
Colorado’s No. 1 education ranking reflects the power of school choice | GUEST COLUMN
By Peter Mason Colorado is now the No. 1 state in the nation for education, according to the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best States rankings. That is a distinction worth celebrating. It is also a d...
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Who is really benefitting from these taxpayer-funded charter school grifts? #COpol #COleg #conflicts #self-dealing
20 Days Before Opening, Douglas County's Newest Charter School Has No Occupancy Permit and 135 Empty Seats
On the morning of Aug. 1, the founders of John Adams Academy cut a gold ribbon outside their new school in Sterling Ranch and raised a flag on a 50-foot...
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Right-wing charter school opens in Sterling Ranch. (Looks like the ballroom will be added at a later date) #COpol #COleg @npeaction.bsky.social
"Liberty-based" classical charter opens as first school in Colorado's Sterling Ranch community
The ribbon has officially been cut on a new school in Douglas County's fast-growing community of Sterling Ranch.
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This sounds like a dodge: “Compliance with the First Amendment has historically been enforced through the courts, not by state agencies,” Colorado Department of Education Chief External Relations Officer Emma Garrett-Nelson said in an email. #COpol #COleg #DoYourJob
State officials knew “public Christian school” would be religious before it opened. They let it move forward.
State education leaders and lawyers knew Riverstone Academy would be religious before it opened. They gave it a public school code and state funding.
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Bravo to CO lawmakers for finally demanding some accountability and transparency. Taxpayers shouldn't be enriching right-wing groups that find loopholes to collect education dollars. #COleg #COpol
Second Colorado school closes after state law change targeting controversial school authorizer
Just a few weeks before school was scheduled to start, leaders announced the school’s permanent closure.
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Thanks, @colorado.gov Jared Polis. Now you can be known for commuting Tina Peters' sentence AND increasing school segregation with a voucher program. #COpol #COleg
A New Federal Voucher Program Poised to Ramp Up School Segregation
In rural Northampton, North Carolina, a private Christian school called Northeast Academy is 99 percent White in a county that’s 40 percent White. It
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Financial Instability in the Charter School Sector - Dissident Voice thedissidentvoice.org/2026/07/fina...
OPINION: Charter schools are the Trojan horse of school privatization.
OPINION: Charter schools are the Trojan horse of school privatization - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Charter schools are the Trojan horse of school privatization. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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Hey, Colorado: Here is what @colorado.gov Polis is teeing up with his opt-in to Trump’s federal tax credit program for private schools. #COpol #COleg
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoAs private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are taking a hands-off approach to regulating them. School founders — in one case, a woman prosecuted for sexual abuse — often aren’t screened. Some states can't even say how many of these schools exist.
Not sure what to think of a drone active shooter response system, but doesn't this new charter school look like it was inspired by the current White House occupant, with the east wing preemptively removed? #COpol #COleg
Douglas County charter to be first school to install drone active shooter response system in Colorado
A school in Douglas County will be the first in Colorado to install a drone active shooter suppression system.
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Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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Here's how school vouchers are used in other states ... Why would Colorado want to subject children to this risk by opting in to the federal tax credit scam? @colorado.gov #COpol #COleg @philweiser.bsky.social
This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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"Denver has long been friendly to charters, encouraging high performers to add more schools as districtwide enrollment grew. But now that enrollment is shrinking and the political winds have shifted away from education reform, more charters have closed recently than opened." #COpol #COleg
If Denver closes low-performing schools, no charter schools will be waiting in the wings to take over
No charter schools applied to serve as replacements for district-run schools that might close under Denver’s new School Transformation Process.
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"Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have been the single largest player in Colorado politics in the June 30 primaries. The billionaire pumped $5 million in cash into a state super PAC backing U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s failed bid for governor against Attorney General Phil Weiser."
Spending topped $67 million in key Colorado primary races. But big money didn’t always win.
That is roughly how much was spent on Colorado’s competitive statewide and federal primaries — and almost all of it went to influence Democrat-versus-Democrat contests, a Post analysis found.
denverpost.com
And Bennet will return to the Senate to do the charter industry’s bidding. What progressive CO Democrat will take him on in ‘28? #COpol #COleg
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last mo.Sad to see Hickenlooper win, but I'm glad to see Michael Bennet lose the primary for CO-GOV because he is a big charter school guy.
Not Colorado, but a good reminder that charter schools and school choice are as much about boosting private equity profits as they are about students. They enrich the wealthy by draining $$$ from public schools serving all kids. #COpol #COleg
This new Houston charter school raises red flags, critics say
Texas leaders approved a new charter last week, despite pushback from Houston-area educators and advocates who questioned its ties to private equity and why it was opening near similar programs.
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Authorizer shopping is a common strategy for poorly operated charter schools. #COleg #COpol
Colorado law change alters futures of three public schools - Sentinel Colorado
"The new law put strict limits on the school-authorizing power of Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES." -
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Michael Bloomberg couldn't lose with his $5.1 million investment in Bennet's campaign. Bennet returns to the Senate to continue boosting Bloomberg's favorite cause, the charter school industry. #COpol #COleg
Michael Bennet Creates Ultimate ‘Pay to Play’ Opportunity - The American Prospect
By loaning his gubernatorial campaign $1 million, the Colorado senator can ask special-interest donors to personally repay the loan, while he serves as an elected official.
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Michael Bennet helped build the fortune of the richest man in Colorado, Phil Anschutz, he tried to ride the Bloomberg money train to the Governor’s seat, and his resounding defeat gives me immense satisfaction.
Another proposed "classical" charter school. Is there truly demand for this, or is it just another ego project for adults? #COpol
Another charter school is seeking approval from Summit School District. Here’s what we know.
A second group of local educators, professionals and parents is moving forward with plans to open a tuition-free charter school in Summit County, aiming to open a classical academy as early as the 202...
summitdaily.com
"The latest, most manipulative and dangerous assault on American education is largely flying under the radar. Endorsed by such luminaries as former Ed Secretary Arne Duncan and @colorado.gov , the soon-to-be rolled out federal school choice plan has gotten little public scrutiny ..." #COpol
The Undoing of American Education
The latest, most manipulative and dangerous assault on American education is largely flying under the radar.
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If you think @philweiser.bsky.social and @michaelbennet.bsky.social offer no contrasts, you're simply not paying attention. The latter is billionaire-backed for a reason. #COpol
Jim Morrissey: The Dems' two-headed gubernatorial candidate
The cartoonist observes that the positions of Michael Bennet and Phil Weiser in the race for the nomination are strikingly similar.
coloradosun.com
PERRY: State legislators run the home-school gravy train off the taxpayer tracks, finally ‘State-taxpayer-funded fun clubs and activities for homeschool kiddos have reached Trumpian Ballroom proportions’ sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perr... #EDcolo #COleg #Education
PERRY: State legislators run the home-school gravy train off the taxpayer tracks, finally - Sentinel Colorado
'State-taxpayer-funded fun clubs and activities for homeschool kiddos have reached Trumpian Ballroom proportions'
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