Colorado education transparency train rolls on

Yesterday Colorado's House Education Committee gave a bipartisan endorsement of HB 1152, a measure sponsored by Rep. B.J. Nikkel (R-Loveland) to create a publicly-accessible, Web-based financial database for the state's colleges and universities. Higher...

Colorado’s NCLB Waiver Won’t Mean Much without Deeper Reforms

Last week news broke that Colorado was one of 10 states to receive U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act. The Peak editors promptly emailed me with a note that someone was “dying” to get my take on the...