ARTICLES & EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION
ARTICLE: The New Education Reform Lie: Why Denver Is a Warning Sign, Not a Model, for Urban School Districts, by Jeff Bryant, published by Alternet (republished in Salon, covered in Diane Ravitch's blog).
ARTICLE: How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality, from Stanford SOCIAL INNOVATION Review.
ARTICLE: Inequitable Policies Are Destroying Our Public Education System, by Manuel Solano, in El Seminario, April 2024.
ARTICLE: Governor Polis Sides with Far-Right Groups in Opposing Charter School Accountability, by Mike DeGuire, March 2024.
OPINION COLUMN: Can charter schools survive without more accountability? Not if Republicans have their way, by Trish Zornio, in the Colorado Sun, March 2024.
ARTICLE: Colorado's P-12 Enrollment Declines While Billionaires Fund Charter Schools, by Mike DeGuire, February 2024.
ARTICLE: The Billionaire Agenda Behind the DARK MONEY in Denver School Board Race, by Mike DeGuire, January 2024.
ARTICLE: Colorado Charter Schools Need More Accountability and Transparency, by Mike DeGuire, in Colorado Newsline, January 2024.
REPORT: Noonan Report on Accountability: Connecting the Dots in K-12 Public Education, a research paper documenting the inequities of the state accountability system, produced by Dr. Paula Noonan on behalf of A4PEP.
REPORT: La Raza Report: Barriers and Opportunities for Latino Students, Parents, and Staff With Denver Public Schools, January 2024.
PRESENTATION: Can You Un-Portfolio a District? Lessons From Denver Public Schools, presented at the national Network for Public Education conference, October 2023.
REPORT: Data on Turnaround Schools & Schools of Distinction, compiled by A4PEP, 2023.
ARTICLE: Pervasive Denver school segregation harms Latinos, English learners, study says, in Chalkbeat, 2023.
POSITION STATEMENT: Resegregation of Our Schools, by Manuel Solano, A4PEP Board of Directors member.
REPORT: Billionaires Exposed: The Impact of the "Portfolio Model" on Denver Public Schools, by Network for Public Education, 2023.
ARTICLE: Colorado Survey Shows Huge Lack of Support for Standardized Testing, the Gazette, May 2023.
REPORT: Results of Survey on State Accountability and Testing, conducted with Colorado PTA members, March 2023.
REPORT: A Sharp Turn Right: A New Breed of Charter Schools Delivers the Conservative Agenda, by Network for Public Education, 2023.
ARTICLE: The Public Is Souring on Public Education, but Parents Still Give Their Own Child's School High Marks, in Chalkbeat, 2023.
REPORT: Resegregation in Denver Public Schools, funded by CLLARO (Colorado Latino Leadership, Advocacy, and Research Organization), 2023.
ARTICLE: Buying the Birthright: A Woodland Park Investigation, by Logan Davis, The Muckraker, Colorado Times Recorder, 2023.
ARTICLE: Stop Privatization: Potential solutions to the inequities caused by the billionaires’ push to privatize education in Denver Public Schools by Mike DeGuire, public education advocate and A4PEP board member, 2023.
ARTICLE: Politicians and pundits say parents are furious with schools; polls say otherwise, in Chalkbeat, 2023.
ARTICLE: Biden’s Education secretary is done sitting “idly” amid schools fight, in Politico, 2023.
ARTICLE: More Memphis charter schools could face closure after state’s failed turnaround effort, in Chalkbeat, 2023.
ARTICLE: Adams 14 School District settles years-long dispute with MGT Consulting, on CBS Colorado.
BLOG: Who demoralized the nation’s teachers? by Diane Ravich, 2022.
ARTICLE: Colorado’s K-12 accountability system “harming” many schools, superintendent says, in Longmont Leader, 2022.
ARTICLE: Audit of how Colorado evaluates schools and districts has officials and educators at odds over results, by CPR News.
REPORT: Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA by the National Education Policy Center, 2023.
ARTICLE: How "Abbott Elementary" Takes on the Charter School Movement, in The New Yorker, 2023.
BLOG: I Am a Charter School Abolitionist, and You Should Be Too, by Steven Singer in Gadfly on the Wall, 2023.
REPORT: How Charter Schools Undermine Good Education Policymaking, by Helen Ladd at Duke University, through National Education Policy Center, 2022.
REPORT: An American Imperative: A New Vision of Public Schools, by AASA (American Association of School Administrators, 2021.
REPORT: Rethinking Assessment in Education: The Case for Change, by Bill Lucas with the Center for Strategic Education, 2021.