SFC & SB 130: "Innovating" Around Teacher Voice?
What a bunch of populists we have working on "our" behalf in the Colorado State Legislature!
A few months ago, I wrote about how the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education may have violated Colorado's so-called Innovation Schools Actby voting 4-3 in favor of granting Innovation status to several schools that didn't yet exist. As currently written, the law requires that a majority of a school's faculty vote in order to opt out of certain parts of its home district's policies and its collectively-bargained Union-District contract. In their quest to push their sponsors' corporate education policy agenda, though, our Board majority decided that building-level democracy was an inconvenience they'd prefer to throw away. (DPS and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association are now involved in legal action as a result.)
Pushing things even further, it now appears that Colorado's chapter of Stand for Children is