When union forces tried to shut down the online charter school Hope Academy, it was conservative reformers in Douglas County who stood alongside the school choice supporters. And the leaders at Hope Academy haven’t forgotten.
In a new ad by Americans for Prosperity Colorado, the Dean of Hope Online Academy, Gigi Hill, talks about how Douglas County conservatives stood up for Hope Academy when union hacks like former State Senator Sue Windels tried to shut down them down.
As The Denver Post‘s (much-missed) David Harsanyi wrote at the time of Windels’ crusade against online charters:
The manufactured distress surrounding Hope will crescendo, as planned, with a state audit that was requested by state Sen. Sue Windels – a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers union – in early December.
Windels, for the past two sessions, has sponsored failed legislation that would have, in effect, dismantled online charter programs.
In the aftermath of the legislative blood feud, Douglas County became the school district that used its charter school authority to keep Hope alive, allowing the innovative online school to keep its program open for the nearly 3,000 disproportionately at-risk students who call Hope home.
Obama is attacking the voucher program in Louisiana I only pray we win!
Why don't you run for the school board?
Let's always put children and families first, not image.
Thank you to the staff and Board of Douglas County for supporting HOPE and our commitment to kids. DCSD's support of Colorado's kids should be celebrated!
We continue to see who is supportive of the kids and who is pushing for power, influence, and money.
When you hear "do it for the kids", you know the unions are about to pick your pockets.
Thank you, DCSD!
And once again we see union hacks trying to keep their featherbedded jobs at he expense of the children. No possibility of mistake – the unions and their bought and paid for candidates would rather throw kids out than lose out on any sort of union power.
At debate after debate the union candidates cry that Douglas County has lost its Accreditation with Distinction status. If Douglas County did not support Hope Online they would have that Accreditation back. Is that Accreditation worth it? Do you really "care about the kids" if you are willing to dump those kids from your population for an Accreditation? Benevento, Reynolds, Geddes and Silverthorn support Hope Online because they do care about kids. Everyone's.