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The Cary Kennedy for Governor campaign is headquartered near downtown Denver in a converted classroom of a restored, century-old red brick elementary school. The...
An aligned group of Douglas County school board candidates seeking to reverse many of the district’s most controversial policies — including a private-school voucher...
Four Douglas County school board candidates who want to continue the legal defense of the district’s stalled private-school voucher program continued to bring in...
A group of candidates that largely supports the direction of the Douglas County School District, especially its embrace of school choice policies, has raised...
Union committees and various political groups have raised more than $1.5 million so far to influence the outcome of school board elections across the...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos became the first member of the Trump administration to visit Denver, speaking Thursday to a noontime luncheon at...
A new report (pdf) in the increasingly popular “education reform” genre was released this week—and it’s one of the odder ones.
“Importing Educators” by the...