Colorado Charter Schools

11/02/2023

New national report: Charter schools are awesome.

01/24/2023

Charter-school leader appointed to Colorado State Board of Education.

Stephen Varela, a former candidate for Colorado State Senate District 3, was appointed to the Colorado State Board of Education.

09/13/2022

Colorado's charter-school students deserve to be treated fairly.

Last week I suggested you vote against any school district’s mill levy override unless it is structured so the district gets portions of the new funding as they meet student

08/18/2022

Durango School District 9-R elevates hostility to charter school, thumbs nose at Colorado Charter School Act, local parents, taxpayers.

Ascent Classical Academy has appealed the denial of its charter school application by Durango School District 9-R saying it did not receive a fair review from the school board. The appeal is scheduled...

06/08/2022

Colorado teacher unions undermine new charter school.

A Colorado teachers union leader allegedly emailed staff members to note that allowing a new charter school in the town would mean decreased enrollment and less funding.

01/14/2022

Politics thwarts charter school.

As the school board versus Critical Race Theory controversy has faded from the headlines, some districts are still wrestling with the fallout where the public school system has been shown to be less devoted to educational excellence than previously t...

12/14/2021

New charter school focuses on ag. Great example of charters leading innovation.

On the eastern edge of the growing Denver area is a school dedicated to agriculture, a tradition once as prevalent in the area as today’s crop of new houses.

11/01/2021

Colorado Charter Schools change lives every day. Great job Ready CO, producing this awesome 10-min film.

09/18/2021

What is the secret of this school’s success? I asked former Congressman Bob Schaffer, the headmaster and one of the school’s founders.

09/10/2021

The new SAT-score rankings are in. Charter schools stand out -- lead the pack.

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO— The Colorado Department of Education, this week, released 2021 statewide SAT results which reveal the senior class at Liberty Common High  School, a charter-public high school in the Poudre School District, earned the state’s highest total  mean score of 1301.