Oral argument scheduled for Monday, October 15

Submitted by delanam
on Sat, 09/01/2012 - 16:24

Oral argument has been set in the District's appeal of the trial court decision declaring the voucher program to be unconstitutional. Oral argument will be held on Monday, October 15 at 2:30 at the Colorado Court of Appeals, 101 W. Colfax Ave., suite C.

Notice of Oral Arguments

Stop the ballot proposals. Sign our petition.

Submitted by delanam
on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 06:11

TFPE joins Year of the Student Project

Submitted by delanam
on Mon, 08/27/2012 - 14:35

Make 2013 the Year of the Student

It's time to do right by our Colorado students!  Taxpayers for Public Education signed on to the 2013: Year of the Student Project, a growing coalition of more than 80 organizations and thousands of individuals calling on the General Assembly to make 2013 "The Year of the Student." You can join the Project too at 2013forstudents.org!

Cindy's comments to the Board of Education

Submitted by delanam
on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 16:53

TFPE President, Cindy Barnard, addressed the Douglas County Board of Education on July 17, 2012.  Here are her comments:

At last month's board meeting I discussed the deficit in the Legal Defense Fund. Since that time I have discovered that the information on the Financial Transparency website is inaccurate.  Journal entry adjustments and re-classes are not reflected on the Transparency site.  To access accurate information, I was instructed to submit an open records request, the response was incomplete.

Support our work!

Submitted by delanam
on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 14:00

Our amazing legal team recently sent us a bill for $5000 for the work they have done thus far on the voucher case. This bill is only a fraction of the thousands of dollars of out of pocket expenses Faegre Baker Daniels has paid on our behalf and none of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney's fees that they have donated. Compare this to the over $900,000 the district has been charged on defense and development of the voucher program. Say thanks to our fantastic attorneys and support our work by making a donation today!

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Legal Update: Answer Briefs and Amicus Curiae filed on July 13, 2012

Submitted by delanam
on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 18:29

The answer briefs have been filed in the Court of Appeals! Taxpayers for Public Education and the Larue Plaintiffs have each filed a brief. And more good news: our efforts have been joined by several national organizations who have filed friend of the court briefs opposing the voucher program. The American Association of School Administrators, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Federation of Teachers all filed briefs asking the Court to uphold the decision striking down the voucher program.

The TFPE brief asks that the Court of Appeals confirm the trial court’s decision to enjoin

Parent Survey Results

Submitted by delanam
on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 05:07

The results from the Parent Survey have been released. The district feels they are  "Inconclusive due to insufficient response rate" as evidenced by the bold red lettering stamped across every page.  Click here to view the results.  We are not sure why it was decided that that the results were inconclusive because of insufficient responses. What would a sufficient number be?

The results are clear to us - the vast majority of parents are happy with their children's schools and curricula. They like their children's teachers and school administrators.

Motion filed in support of permanent injunction

Submitted by delanam
on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 04:48

We are happy to report that the Legal Center for People With Disabilities and Older People have filed an amicus curiae in support of the permanent injunction issued last August.  They believe that  "The District Court was correct in its issuance of a permanent injunction against the Choice Scholarship Program. That decision should be upheld."

Read the briefs by clicking the links below:

Motion of Amicus Curiae from the Legal Center for People With Disabilities and Older People for Leave to Participate in Support of Appellees' Answer Brief

Certificate of Service

Answer Brief of Amicus

Legal Update

Submitted by delanam
on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 04:55

STATUS OF APPEAL: The Court of Appeals has given TFPE and the other Appellees an extension of time until July 13, 2012 to file their briefs. You may have heard some ungrounded grousing about this on another FB page, so we thought we should set the record straight. There is no cause to complain about extension of time granted to the Appellees (the Larue and Taxpayers plaintiffs) in the voucher case to file their appellate briefs, because the extension was very reasonable under the circumstances – and even with the extension, the Appellees had months less time to write their briefs than the

Questions that need to be answered

Submitted by delanam
on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 22:57

Update:  Cindy's questions have finally been answered!

In April, the district reported that it had received a donation of $200,000 that covered the deficit in the Legal Defense Fund.    The donation came from the Walton Family Foundation,  a supporter of voucher programs.  In our April 24th newsletter, we asked that you boycott Wal-Mart and associated companies.

In May, we were given the news that the 1.1 million dollars that was being  held in the charter school account for the voucher programs was unencumbered as of April 20, 2012.  At that time, the district also reported that only 4

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Every child left behind?

That is the question being asked by many citizens as we learn more about Douglas County School District's Option Certificate Program.  Will this program leave every child behind to benefit a few?

Fill out our contact form to find ways to get involved

The Douglas County School District in in the process of adopting what it calls an “Option Certificate” or “Voucher” program.  This program is cloaked as “choice”; but in reality, it is a scheme to give your taxes dollars to private schools.

We have flyers, our presentation, and other information in our Documents section, please check it out.

 

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