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Colorado school district finalizes deal with a Florida company taking over management of the district

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Count this as an admission of failure by the Colorado Department of Education, which clearly considers itsel incompetent to help the district.What next? Outsourcing districts to China, Turkey, Chile?Colorado turned this school district over to a Florida-based management corporation. s igning  an $8.3 million, four-year contract officially becoming the first district in the state to hand over management to a company. The state Board of Education in November ordered the Commerce City-based district of Adams 14 to hire an external manager for at least four-years, to handle much of the district’s operations in an attempt to improve the achievement of its approximately 7,000 students."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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