The Colorado Women’s Alliance is launching three ads focusing on the improvements made by the conservative, reform-minded Douglas County School Board.
The board has drawn attacks from union forces after it cut off taxpayer funding for union boss salaries, redirecting the money into classrooms, earning the wrath of the local AFL-CIO affiliate in the process.
The ads serve as a direct rebuttal to the misinformation being spread by unions and their allies, with the first ad released of a teacher talking directly to camera about what the school board’s reforms have meant for her.
“Women in Colorado are talking,” said Debbie Brown, executive director of Colorado Women’s Alliance in a press release. “Parents, teachers and leaders in Douglas County love the bold reforms and the positive results they are seeing for students in Douglas County schools.”
Hats off to Douglas county! Its good to see positive reform happening in Colorado public education, hope it can be adopted nationwide. I am about to vote "no" in a off cycle referendum election for my local school district to raise property tax above state of Arizona mandated caps pasted by voters. Just another attempt at to backdoor the tax payer for money that won't see the classroom.
Susan you are brainwashed just like all of the Union Thugs. Pay for performance you bet!!!!!! If you cannot cut the mustard then find another profession
No Steve, competition in education, as in any other field, results in winners and losers. Want your kid going to a "loser" school? Go worship your free-market gods elsewhere.
All public schools are a mess David. What is needed is competition, so long as the NEA has a monopoly on education they will continue to address the wants of their members instead of the NEEDS of the students. The state forcibly takes my money to deliver a defective product that I don't want and indoctrinate MY children with THEIR agenda. And now when I want MY money to send MY kids to a school of MY choice I'm the asshole? Give me a freekin break.
Oh, Please! This is only one view. I want to hear opposing views. Douglas County School District is a mess.