How Does Your School District Measure Up?
Ben DeGrow discusses open enrollment in Colorado public schools with Pam Benigno and Kirstin Hasler. The Education Policy Center spent an entire year going over school district websites and evaluating their ability to help facilitate parent’s decisions in choosing the right school for their kids. Does a larger school district with more resources mean better, more easily accessible information? You will be surprised.
Bruce Randolph Strives for Autonomy
Alan Gottlieb, Vice President for Policy at the Public Education and Business Coalition, discusses the Bruce Randolph School’s attempts to break away from its union grip with our own education policy analyst Ben DeGrow. How successful is the Bruce Randolph freedom movement thus far and can it help foster other freedom movements in schools around Colorado?
Consumers as Smart as Economic Busybodies
Consumers don’t need a Ph.D. to know the right way to shop.
Consumers as Smart as Economic Busybodies
There are still two weeks of shopping until Christmas, but the nagging has already started. Everybody’s got an opinion on how I shop. They may argue with each other, but they agree on one thing: I’m doing it wrong. Some economists worry I’m not spending enough. These economists are sniffing the fumes of something called Keynesian economics. John Maynard Keynes revamped economic theory in the early 20th century. Economics as a science is still reeling from the blow.
Health care "reform" in Colorado: Go home and die; it's cheaper.
On September 8, 2006, the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) told patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to go home and die. Some Colorado health reformers want to be able to say the same thing. They want a Scottish Medicines Consortium for Colorado, yet another group of “stakeholders” empowered to give “patient-centered” advice that tells people what to while denying health care to all in the name of controlling costs.
