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		<title>More GOOD News on the School Choice Front:Louisiana Adopts Special Needs Voucher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD news! There are now 20 private school choice programs. Special needs children in Louisiana will have more educational choice! Read the news release from our friends at the American Federation for Children:
Children Win as Louisiana Enacts Special Needs Scholarship Program

Washington, D.C. (June 25, 2010) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal this week signed into law the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma Governor Makes Good Choice to Sign Special-Needs Scholarship Bill&#8230; Could Colorado Be Next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some very GOOD education reform news to report from our neighbors in Oklahoma this week. Governor Brad Henry signed into law a new program to provide scholarship assistance for special-needs students to attend the private or public school of their parents&#8217; choosing.
The Foundation for Educational Choice proudly reported the news:

The Lindsey Nicole Henry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEA Shamefully Opposes SB 191 and Effective Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For students to achieve the best outcomes, they need teachers and principals to be as effective as they can be. To make that happen, we first need a clear and fair way to know which teachers are effective. We need to do more to invest both teachers AND principals in student academic success. And we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private School Choice Helps Students, Saves Money? Lawmakers Say Too BAD; Lobbyists Make SHAMEFUL Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On consecutive days this week at the State Capitol, Colorado lawmakers once again killed two private school choice bills. HB 1295 and HB 1296 would have provided tax credits so families could choose a non-public school. 
Even the fact that both bills would have saved public schools money on a per-pupil basis during these hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative Committee Halts Charter School &#8216;Witch-Hunt&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to public performance audits, there&#8217;s a difference between good governance and oversight on one hand, and a far-reaching fishing expedition on the other. The latter SHAMEFUL act is what a handful of Democrat state legislators (Rep. Mike Merrifield, Rep. Judy Solano, Sen. Bob Bacon, Sen. Evie Hudak) put into motion last month. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado Supreme Court: No Hearing for Anti-Charter School Institute Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Supreme Court says today in response to Boulder Valley School District&#8217;s lawsuit against the State Charter School Institute: Hearing &#8220;DENIED.&#8221;
The state&#8217;s highest court will not hear the case, and that&#8217;s a GOOD decision. Boulder Valley previously lost its legal attempt to deny families more educational choice and opportunity, both at the district court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDE Gathers Feedback on Social Studies Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado is making major revisions to the state&#8217;s academic standards. At the Independence Institute, we&#8217;re especially interested in the Social Studies standards. Our own Ben DeGrow has served on the subcommittee to draft new standards for history.
What&#8217;s really GOOD about the process is how the Colorado Department of Education has worked to solicit feedback on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Takes a Stand for Private School Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Benigno</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Parents Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[June 30, 2009 was a GOOD day for thousands of Indiana children in the home state of the Friedman Foundation and the GEO Foundation, two long-time school choice advocates. Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law a 2.5 million corporate and individual scholarship tax credit program.  The program gives companies and individuals a 50 percent tax credit in return for their donation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Collective Temper Tantrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Benigno</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Boulder Valley School District]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Acting like spoiled children, over a three-day period, several hundred Boulder Valley teachers held a collective temper tantrum.  Our government-run education system has trained teachers to expect a raise whether or not the money is available and whether or not they are good teachers.
When a spoiled child misbehaves, who must share in the blame?  (Usually it&#8217;s the parents, but in this case it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News from the Gold Dome</title>
		<link>http://www.gobash.org/?p=147</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Benigno</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Bacon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chris Romer]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[keith king]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Groff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[school finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good picks by a Republican leader!  Colorado Senate News has reported that Republican Senate leader Josh Penry will appoint a Democrat to the Interim Committee to Study Financing of Public Schools. The Democrat is education reformer Michael Johnston, who was selected by a committee to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Senator Peter [...]]]></description>
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