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Conservatives burned money on JeffCo races. Unions spent big and won

  The Independence Institute, Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2015 school board races and ended...

Student’s ‘joke gone awry’ leads to felony charges, racist slurs

The day after the San Bernardino shooting, SWAT teams stormed Denver's East High School after rumors spread about a mass shooting. A senior, Elhadji...

Battle’s over: Thompson School District and teachers union sign contract

The Loveland-based Thompson School District and its teachers union, the Thompson Education Association, declared a truce after eight months of fighting over who will...

Indoctrination ban shot down by Douglas County school board

It was the final farewell for three members of the Douglas County Board of Education. One of their last decisions: rejecting a call to...

Jeffco Board of Education’s housecleaning begins

Housecleaning has begun for the newly elected Jefferson County Board of Education. Brad Miller, the attorney hired by the conservative majority that was ousted in...

Auraria students demand debt-free future at Million Student March

Dozens of students walked out of classes yesterday to gather at the center of Denver’s Auraria campus to demand a debt-free future after graduation....

Attorney Brad Miller resigns from Thompson District. Will he resign from Jeffco?

Brad Miller, the private attorney from Colorado Springs hired to represent two embattled Front Range school boards, resigned from one of them this morning. Miller...

Jeffco’s conservative school board majority’s last hurrah

Last week, during the last hurrah for the current Jefferson County Board of Education, the ousted conservative majority, Julie Williams, Board ro-resident Ken Witt...

Students to march for tuition-free public college

DENVER - On Thursday, students from the Auraria campus will be joining others from over 100 colleges and universities for a national day of action demanding...

JeffCo voters were pro-recall but not sure where they’re headed

Jefferson County voters cared more about kicking out three conservative school board members than about who replaced them. Recent voter turnout numbers showed that more...
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