Conference touts union-district cooperation
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addresses the school labor-management conference meeting in Denver.
Two Colorado school districts with innovative labor policies – Denver and Douglas County – share a national stage this week as representatives from 150 school districts nationwide meet in Denver for a conference on advancing student achievement through labor-management collaboration.
The by-invitation-only two-day conference, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, is a first. Districts attending had to agree to send representatives from their school board, their administration and their teachers’ union.
“I would be the first to acknowledge that labor and management are going to have their differences,” U.S.
Schools take deepest Hick cuts
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Saying he had to go where the money is, Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed cutting K-12 spending in 2011-12 by $322 million from current levels.
Funding of state colleges and universities would drop by only about $28 million from this year to about $519 million.
If approved by the legislature, the cuts would drop school spending to 2007-08 levels and reduce average per
