Denver, CO – After ten years, the Denver Teachers Union has decided to elect a new “progressive” leader according to Colorado Politics and Chalkbeat Colorado.
What’s interesting about this situation, is this is a redo of an election from last spring. Henry Roman, the Union President of the last ten years, won that election by eleven votes. As you can see from this article, there seemed to be some shady activity regarding ballots being “thrown-out,” and the numbers not reconciling. If you follow union activities in elections, this should come as no surprise.
So the new President of the Denver Teachers Union is Tiffany Choi. Here’s a quick bio on Choi:
Choi is a French teacher at East High School who won a seat on the union’s board of directors two years ago. She was a leader during the February teacher strike and is part of a group of progressive young educators who want the union to focus more on social justice issues.
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado, April 23, 2019
If you want to go down the rabbit hole of link-clicking, you will find out that Choi is a member of the caucus within the union that wants to be more aggressive, progressive, and social justice-oriented.
We think that there is enough of this far-left indoctrination in our schools already. These people want to take it to another level, and now one of their own is the head of arguably the most influential group in Denver Public Schools.
The left figured out a long time ago that education was where they would influence the hearts and minds in our country to eventually take it over. When will we reach the tipping point?
Public schools are where most of your state and local taxes go. Why are we paying for the left to take over? Speaking of “pay,” the main policy target for the union is Denver’s Pro-comp, which is kind of a pay for performance system. Pro-comp provides some accountability for the teachers. For taxpayers, it (in theory) means that we are getting a good bang for our buck. Expect the last remnants of Pro-comp to be peeled away sooner rather than later.
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We continue to request educational vouchers for private Christian schools in Colorado. Additionally, parents whom home school should receive tax credits, if not an outright tax refund for not having used public education services. Enough people are looking at education alternative or have taken alternatives, that if this had a more direct effect on public education budgets, the financial disincentive would slow down these progressive efforts, possibly reversing them. At this point in 2019, I’d imagine that if parents could lift up their children from public school and place them in a private Christian school at no additional cost, there would be a notable volume of parents whom would do that. We looked into it but at around $300 per month, per child, it’s unaffordable. But we could get a credit to put them in some private charter school. Clearly the system is imbalanced and not operating on a fair cash basis for resources method.