April M. Washington

Rocky Mountain News 

"Some of the state's highest- and lowest-performing schools would get to control their budgets, hire their own faculty and staff and design their own curriculum under a bill proposed by a top Democratic lawmaker.

Colorado Senate President- elect Peter Groff unveiled a plan Wednesday that would allow school districts to create what he calls “innovation zones.”

Under a bill Groff plans to introduce next month, districts could identify a zone of schools that could seek waivers from district and state policies and some provisions in union contracts...."

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