Commission for High School Improvement
January 2005
This January 2005 report from the Colorado Commission for High School Improvement, a project of the Colorado Children's Campaign, is very short and, within its limits, an interesting take on how to reshape the state's approach to high-school education. And it's much needed for, while Colorado has lots of well-educated adults who arrived from elsewhere, its own track record in secondary education is weak. This commission is a cross section of the public-school establishment, however, and that helps account for its limits. Most striking to me: they have a very interesting section on expanding school choice and alternatives, and another one on enhancing "school-level flexibility." Yet so far as I can tell they never even once use the phrase "charter school" despite Colorado's sizable and rather successful charter movement. Could it be because most commission members represent establishment organizations? What they recommend is worthy, as far as it goes. One wishes it went further. See for yourself here.
