B.O.E.
Why Proposition 103 is needed.
October 16th, 2011 by John Creighton in B.O.E.
Tags: St. Vrain
As a community, we have a great deal to celebrate in the St. Vrain Valley. The community has provided tremendous support to the school district and the school district has produced results. Despite $24 million dollars in reduced state funding over the past three years, as calculated by the Colorado Department of Education, St. Vrain has stayed true to the community-supported vision for our schools that was the basis for the 2008 mill levy override. Over the past few years, [...]
Read more...Questions for Colorado’s leaders
March 8th, 2011 by John Creighton in B.O.E.
Tags: Colorado, Public Leaders, St. Vrain
LONGMONT — There is political consensus in Colorado that the state’s budget woes won’t go away even when the economy recovers. Authors of a report released by the University of Denver Center for Colorado’s Economic Future assert that even fifteen years of strong job growth is not enough to dig Colorado out of its hole. Colorado’s problems are caused by a structural mismatch between the state’s obligations to fund K-12 Education, Medicaid, the state’s prison system, and a variety of [...]
Read more...Austerity comes to Colorado
February 18th, 2011 by John Creighton in B.O.E., Dispatches
Tags: Colorado, Leadership, Public Leaders, Public Values, St. Vrain
LONGMONT, Colo. — Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Democrat, proposed an austerity budget this week that would make Republican counterparts such as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proud. Governor Hickenlooper deserves credit on many levels for his budget proposal. But, twelve, eighteen or twenty-four months from now, his ideas, if enacted, are just as likely to foster greater public antipathy toward government and politicians as it is to build good will. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper addresses [...]
Read more...Should charter schools be democratic institutions?
September 14th, 2010 by John Creighton in B.O.E.
Tags: Democracy, Education, St. Vrain
LONGMONT, Colo. — What should parents do if they don’t like how things are going at their child’s charter school? Should they “vote with their feet” and enroll their child at another school? Or, should parents organize and elect a new board of directors who will put the school on a path parents support? What about parents who feel their children are excluded from the school? What recourse do they have to influence and change the school’s policies and practices? [...]
Read more...Retirement Dinner Remarks
May 14th, 2010 by John Creighton in B.O.E.
Tags: Atwood, School, St. Vrain
I was asked to speak at the St. Vrain Valley retirement dinner on behalf of the Board. Here’s what I said: It is a privilege to be here tonight to say a few words of appreciation on behalf of the Board of Education to all of you who have served the students of the St. Vrain Valley for so many years. I especially appreciate the opportunity to speak at this dinner. I was at a celebration last week and our [...]
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