Luke Ragland
            
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               Innovation is winning in Colorado. 🏔️ Open enrollment is giving families options — and schools are adapting to meet them. 
          
                
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             📢ICYMI: Virginia closes the ‘Honesty Gap’ to open more doors for students. Via @Forbes 
          
            
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              Virginia’s new proficiency standards close the “honesty gap,” giving families a clearer picture of student readiness and achievement.
            
                
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             Come work with me! @Daniels_Fund is hiring for a couple of positions, including a great communications role. Check it out here: 
          
                
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             School choice is a rising tide that lifts all boats, and as @shakamitchell shared with members of a @GOPoversight committee today: "Research comes out of the University of Arkansas shows that students who participate in choice programs... are actually more civically engaged... 
          
                
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             Just putting this in a place I can easily find and reference for the upcoming NFL season. @craighulse
          
          
          
                
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             Colorado #YouthSportsGivingDay kicks off tonight.🎉 We never turn a child away for financial reasons—because every kid deserves the chance to play, grow, & succeed through sports.💛👑 Join us & make an impact today! #GoldCrownExperience @Daniels_Fund
             https://t.co/dhFyUIGJzW 
          
          
                
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             Colorado Youth Sports Giving Day kicks off to help families afford the game 
          
            
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              Playing youth sports is becoming more expensive than ever, and that's keeping many kids off the field in Colorado. However, a new month-long campaign aims to change that.
            
                
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             🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨 Joins us and the @Daniels_Fund tonight for a Night at the Ballpark to benefit #YouthSportsGivingDay. More Info // Tickets:  https://t.co/8xLZy7kT73 
          
          
                
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             Big night at the ballpark! Make sure you go to  https://t.co/d2VFG01yHs  to donate to great groups like @chancesportsusa
          
          
            
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              Daniels Fund and Project Play Colorado are proud to spearhead Youth Sports Giving Day, a statewide online giving movement to celebrate and support youth sports across Colorado.
             🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨 Joins us and the @Daniels_Fund tonight for a Night at the Ballpark to benefit #YouthSportsGivingDay. More Info // Tickets:  https://t.co/8xLZy7kT73 
            
            
                
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             Does the type of school children attend vary by household income? Yes. A lot. 
          
                
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             Our newest report, Open Doors, Open Districts II, finds that nearly 40% of Colorado students attend a school of choice. Explore the upward trend that public school choice has seen in the last decade, alongside what barriers still remain for families.  https://t.co/cTVIQTS42h 
          
          
                
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             “Listen dog...I've got a million years of human evolution...If you ask a parent to subvert the parental instinct for some amorphous distant good, that is a losing battle—philosophically and politically.” On the latest videocast of #InvisibleMen , the great @Dyrnwyn reminds us 
          
                
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             🏅 Colorado #YouthSportsGivingDay runs Sept. 3–17! Sports build confidence, health, and leadership. Too many kids are sidelined by cost and together with @AspenInstSports, we are breaking barriers. 📊 Impact: higher test scores, better mental health, stronger futures. Your 
          
                
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             Smart piece from @LevesquePat here. Worth a read! The Psychology of Voters Rejecting School Choice 
          
            
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              Another slew of choice referendum defeats can be explained by an aversion to losing what’s in hand over gaining something new
            
                
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            @educationgadfly @JonValant @MichaelPetrilli The biggest risk being more kids might get to go to the schools they want to.
          
          
                
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             Such a joyful and impressive event every year. Wildly smart, passionate middle schoolers from across Colorado showcasing their knowledge of civics and ideas to improve our community. 
           Best day of the year: Colorado State Championship for National Civics Bee. Thanks to the folks that make this possible! @9NEWS @KyleClark @ColoradoChamber @CivicsBuzz @Daniels_Fund
            
            
                
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