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Great Schools, Thriving Communities
WHO WE ARE
Created in 2016, the Great Schools, Thriving Communities Coalition, created in 2016, is the first and only ongoing education coalition that encompasses practitioner, advocacy, and social justice organizations. GSTC pursues inclusively created policies that promote an adequate, equitable and sustainable school finance system that meets the needs of every Colorado student.
WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED
- In 2021-2022, developed Initiative 63 to increase funding for teachers and students support professsionals without increasing tax rates.
- Actively supported Proposition CC in 2019, the Fair Tax Colorado initiative and Amendment B (property tax reform) in 2020, and developed Initiative 63 to increase funding for teachers without increasing tax rates in 2021-22.
- Developed Amendment 73, a 2018 citizens initiative to add $1.
6 billion to Colorado’s school finance system, to be distributed in a way that would better meet the individual needs of students. GSTC partners gathered more than 100,000 volunteer signatures to qualify Amendment 73 for the ballot, where the measure came closer to success than any previous statewide school funding tax increase, despite the campaign being outspent 3:1 in the fall.
- Meets monthly to discuss and advance ballot and legislative issues; co-create communication and outreach strategies; and learn together about ways to make the Coalition and our own organizations more inclusive and responsive to the needs of individuals and populations that have been underserved traditionally.
WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, ACTION-ORIENTED COALITION? Please email Ben Robinson ([email protected]) to learn more and find out how.
| Advocates for Public Education Policy | a4pep. org |
| AFT Colorado | co.aft.org |
| The Arc of Arapahoe & Douglas Counties | arc-ad.org |
| The Arc of Colorado | www.thearcofco.org |
| Colorado Association of Bilingual Education | www.cocabe.org |
| CLLARO | www.cllaro.org |
| Colorado Association of Gifted and Talented | www.coloradogifted.org |
| Colorado Association of School Boards | www.casb.org |
| Colorado Association of School Executives | www.co-case.org |
| Colorado BOCES Association | www.coloradoboces.org |
| Colorado Children’s Campaign | www.coloradokids.org |
| Colorado Council of Churches | www. cochurches.org |
| Colorado Education Association | www.coloradoea.org |
| Colorado PTA | copta.org |
| Colorado Rural Schools Alliance | www.coruralalliance.org |
| Colorado School Finance Project | cosfp.org |
| Denver Families for Public Education | https://www.denverfamilies.org/ |
| Great Education Colorado | www.greateducation.org |
| Mile High United Way | unitedwaydenver.org |
| NAACP | www.naacpstateconference.org |
| National Center for Learning Disabilities | www.ncld.org |
| Northeast Colorado BOCES | www.neboces.org/o/ne-colorado-boces |
| Pinnacle Partners | |
| Project VOYCE | www. projectvoyce.org |
| Public Education Business Coalition | www.pebc.org |
| Stand for Children | stand.org/colorado |
| Support Jeffco Kids | www.supportjeffcokids.org |
GreatSchools, Colorado Succeeds Announce Expanded School Rating System for Colorado Parents
DENVER, CO – Dec. 5, 2017 — GreatSchools — the leading nonprofit provider of trusted school information, and Colorado Succeeds, a coalition of business leaders focused on improving education —announce today new ratings for all Colorado schools on GreatSchools.org. Parents and families statewide now have access to expanded information about important aspects of schools — including student progress and equity — that can help them support their children’s education and take action to improve their local schools.
Utilizing data from sources including the Colorado Department of Education and the U.
S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection, the new GreatSchools rating system incorporates rich information into its one through 10 Summary Rating and school profiles to ensure school ratings reflect factors that are connected to students’ success in college, career, and life. For more information on the new GreatSchools ratings, visit GreatSchools.org.
The new GreatSchools Summary Ratings in Colorado include the following (where sufficient data are available):
- An Academic Progress Rating that shows how much a school helps students improve academically throughout the school year;
- An Equity Rating that indicates whether a school effectively serves all groups of students, including students in different ethnic groups and students from low-income families;
- A College Readiness Rating that indicates how well students are prepared for college based on key measures, like graduation rates, college entrance tests, and AP coursework when available;
- A Test Score Rating that reflects annual results from Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) for a school compared with scores statewide.
“We believe schools must serve the needs of every child, in every community, and we know that parents play an enormous role in ensuring this happens,” said Matthew Nelson, president of GreatSchools. “We hope our new rating system and school profiles will further enable parents to be strong advocates for their children — and all children in their communities — to help all kids have a shot at success. We look forward to partnering with Colorado Succeeds and others to advance this work in Colorado.”
GreatSchools’ new school profiles were designed with an explicit focus on the types of information parents need and the support that can help them take action with this information. For example, if a parent sees that their child’s school has a low Equity Rating compared to other schools in their state, they will find tips on how they can engage teachers and administrators to discuss improving the education of all students at this school. In addition, GreatSchools will continue to offer stories, videos, tips, grade-by-grade newsletters, and interactive tools for parents on ways to support their children’s academic and social-emotional development from preschool through high school.
“Colorado families want access to information that will allow them to make the best decision for their child’s education,” said Scott Laband, president of Colorado Succeeds. “Our business coalition and local partners have long supported and provided this through Colorado School Grades. We are excited to continue to make this easy-to-understand and critical information available to Colorado families through GreatSchools’ Colorado profiles.”
Colorado Succeeds and GreatSchools formalized a partnership in 2017 to offer more robust Colorado school ratings and school profiles on GreatSchools.org. Prior to this, Colorado school performance ratings were provided on ColoradoSchoolGrades.com, an A through F school performance website used by more than 1.5 million Coloradans.
About GreatSchools
GreatSchools is the leading national nonprofit empowering parents with essential information to navigate and improve educational opportunities for their child.
GreatSchools’ trusted ratings and school quality information help parents find the right school for their family and take action to improve schools in their communities. Thousands of articles, tips and interactive tools help parents support their child’s learning and well-being every day. Families, community leaders and policymakers turn to GreatSchools for the school information they need to guide children to great futures.
About Colorado Succeeds
Colorado Succeeds is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of Colorado’s business leaders who join forces to ensure our education system works better and smarter for all people of Colorado. We believe Colorado is the best place to live and work, and we want it to stay that way. This great state can only continue its tradition of excellence when all of our children are educated to their greatest potential and all of our businesses have the talented and innovative workforce they need to thrive. We believe great schools are good business.
We know when Colorado schools improve, everybody wins.
Choosing a school in America on the example of Colorado
“Schools are sold in America, not houses” – I heard this phrase about five years ago from friends who ate a dog while looking for a home and placing a child in a school. And indeed it is. Two approximately the same houses in two approximately the same areas can differ in price just because the first house is attached to a good school, and the second to a school with a low reputation. The level of schools is an important criterion when choosing a home, and it is taken into account not only by families with school-age children, but also by families without children at all. Homes located near high-ranking schools always sell faster and for more.
Every major city in America is divided into school districts. In Denver, the Cherry Creek School District is considered especially prestigious, and although it includes both good and not so good schools, it is still in high demand, as it is generally considered one of the best.
The apartment complexes for rent related to this area, in their advertising, always proudly beat their heels in the chest, and are snapped up like hot cakes by those for whom the school issue is acute.
A few years ago, our family moved into a wonderful residential complex – large, green, with a lake, a playground, swimming pools, courts, security at the entrance and a million other joys. But at the time of the move, Vintik was still in kindergarten age, and my husband and I, who were not particularly versed in school districts, only knew that head to head with our future home was the best school in Denver – Challenge School. That is, the child could be sent to school by throwing over a common fence. In such a situation, who would want to look at the map of school districts (see above) and find out if, according to this map, this side of the fence is connected to that one?
But, as it turned out later, the dividing line ran exactly along the ill-fated fence, and if on the other side was the Cherry Creek school district, then on this side it was already Denver Public Schools, to which we were assigned.
The current Vintik school in the ranking of Colorado schools is in 298th place out of 876 available, but at the same time it is included in the Denver Top 40 Public Elementary Schools. That is, quite an ordinary school with indicators somewhat better than average.
Rating of all schools in America can be found here – http://schooldigger.com
This is a very good site. I recommend it for study to anyone who is busy looking for a school. The rating is formed primarily on the basis of the results of tests in mathematics, reading, writing, science, etc., which are taken by schoolchildren once a year. Tests are taken separately in third grade at Elementary School, sixth grade at Middle School, and ninth grade at High School, and scores are compared to average scores a) for the school district; b) throughout the state as a whole. Test scores at the Challenge School are the highest in Colorado year after year, which is why it takes the honorable first place in the ranking of elementary and secondary schools.
In addition, on the site you can find out what the demographic situation in the school is, which, you see, is important.
This is how things are at Challenge School (1st place):
This is how it is at my son’s school – Highline Academy (298th place):
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Something to think about…
Tags: USA, children, children – school
Lessons Colorado for Ivanteevka
George Bovt
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Shooting at the Ivanteevka school
Society
Political scientist Georgy Bovt, Columnist “VM” / Photo: Anna IvANTSOVA, “Evening Moscow »
They say that a “school shooter” in Ivanteevka near Moscow wrote on social networks about the mass shooting at the Columbine school in Colorado. Interested in experience, so to speak. It didn’t bother anyone.
Now, however, there will be occasion to look at Columbine’s experience in other ways, in terms of improving safety in our schools. Moreover, unlike America, we do not have free possession of firearms.
The April 1999 shooting at Columbine School by two students (13 people killed, 37 injured) stirred up the whole of America, prompting the authorities to take massive measures to improve school safety. This was done at the local, state level.
The federal authorities only made recommendations.
By the way, school self-government institutions played an important role in this regard, both at the level of school districts (where they are elected) and at the level of school parent committees: parents know the situation in their school better and more accurately assess the potential danger and the necessary countermeasures, than officials from the sometimes distant center.
American schools did not begin to install metal detector frames everywhere. Less than 2% of primary schools (with random testing), approximately 8% of secondary schools and 9% of the so-called high school (“high school”, an analogue of our senior classes above the 9th).
We are talking about statistics in “public”, in our opinion, public schools. In private schools, the contingent is generally calmer. American public figures and teachers believe that the presence of metal detectors in schools has a negative impact on the environment in the educational institution. Not a prison though.
On the other hand, a police officer is much more common now in US schools. And this is not an elderly retired security guard, lounging at the entrance and having no clear responsibilities. Police officers are present in 15% of American elementary schools on a full-time basis, in 37% of middle schools and almost half of “high schools”. Unlike in the past, entry to almost all American schools is now limited – only for “their own”. Various monitoring systems have been introduced, cameras are in 75% of public schools. More than half of the schools introduced photo passes. In every tenth school, “badges” with a photo must be worn constantly in a conspicuous place. A quarter of schools are regularly searched for weapons and drugs.