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Group's Goal Is Uncommon Karen Abbott
Rocky Mountain News, April 1, 2006 The Rocky Mountain News reports that "[i]t can take months to suspend an unruly student from a public school in Colorado, and it can take more than a year to fire a bad teacher" according to new research done by Common Good Colorado. Common Good Colorado is the first state affiliate of a 4-year-old national organization, Common Good, and "its first target will be sorting out better ways for schools to get things done." Unveiling a chart showing the steps required to fire a Denver Public School teacher who refused to use the science textbooks required by the district or teach the required science curriculum, a process that took 27 months and cost the school district more than $87,000, Elaine Berman, former president of the Denver School Board and a director of Common Good Colorado, said "It wasn't always like this. This is the result of the past 20 or 30 years, where we've layered laws on top of one another."
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