Colorado is a fairly blue state, but voters at the local level are leading the charge for school choice and defanging the teachers union. Last year, the largest school district in Colorado Springs elected a reform school board, and it has now voted 6 to 1 to end the collective bargaining agreement with the Colorado Education Association.

Board members noted the teachers union is a private corporation that effectively controls a public institution.  It also effectively muzzles the 40 percent of district teachers who aren’t members of the union, which facilitates the union’s extreme ideology of rejecting any accountability or parental control.

Here’s an example of the radical agenda of the the Colorado Education Association: last year it passed a resolution saying “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor and resources. Capitalism is in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism (the school to prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGBTQ disparities), education inequality and income inequality.”

The Colorado Springs Gazette hailed the decision and urged it be taken up as a model by other districts:  “Finally, we have an elected board — not a private club — running the city’s central school district,” it noted. “Let’s hope it starts a coast-to-coast trend of making children’s outcomes the highest order of public education.”

Yes, this is one of our Christmas wishes.