Tag: douglas county school board
DougCo student activist Grace Davis’ coming of age
Grace Davis is many things: a 16-year old incoming junior at Ponderosa High, a member of her church’s youth group, school choir and golf...
Homebrew: Forest Service burns budgets fighting Western fires
Burning money
National Forests in Colorado are losing their annual budgets to firefighting efforts across the West, reports the Aspen Times. That means road construction...
Colo. school board election recap: Voters stick with market-based experiment
It was a clean sweep for the public education "reform" movement in Colorado this week, as market-based school-choice candidates prevailed in the Denver and Douglas Counties school board races being watched by education wonks around the nation.
Gessler surprises with plan to campaign for DougCo school board candidates
Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican candidate for governor, announced Tuesday he would be suspending campaign efforts this week in order to help elect conservative candidates to the Douglas County School Board. The surprise move has political observers scratching their heads.
Controversial DPS board member Merida blogs her secret swearing-in
Andrea Merida made headlines November 30 for secretly finding a judge to swear her in before a Denver Public School board meeting so that...
New DougCo school board approves GOP-backed charter high school
Fresh off an ugly campaign, the brand-new Douglas County School Board unanimously gave conditional approval to a proposed charter school, STEM High, Tuesday night.
The...
Charter school looks to win review from new Doug Co school...
The Douglas County Board of Education election, it seems, still isn’t over. Early this week, Douglas County informed the Douglas County School District that it would not be able to certify the election in time to swear in the new slate of charter school-friendly, Republican-backed, “reform” candidates for the next board meeting.
Heated GOP campaign rhetoric a risk in purple Colorado
The heated rhetoric and no-holds-barred campaign tactics on display in the Douglas County school board race may complicate what looks to be Republican party...
Ugly Douglas County GOP campaign alienated Republicans
Even if the Douglas County Republican Party candidates win the Douglas County School Board election today, the battle may come at the cost of wider party support.
Douglas County GOP emails and robocalls full of vague allegations about...
What is the union agenda in the Douglas County School race? The answer depends a great deal on whether you believe the hype or...