Tag: Douglas County
DougCO schools: Students protest, teachers quit and rage boils
Students at Ponderosa High School in Parker walked out of class Wednesday to protest a growing exodus of their district’s teachers.
The protest is...
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...
Some counties charge thousands of dollars for public inspection of voted-ballot...
This story first appeared on the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition website.
The public can inspect voted ballots in Colorado. So says a state Court of...
Littwin: Blame Julie Williams for Colorado’s education “reform” fail
It's probably not altogether fair to put the stunning defeat of so-called education "reformers" around the state on Julie Williams, but let's do it...
Colorado voters “give the middle finger” to Koch Brothers education reforms
Voters in three school board districts sent a powerful message Tuesday night to conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Americans for Prosperity and...
Bipartisan voters ousted conservative school board majorities
One of the differences in Tuesday night’s election for school boards across the state: voter turnout. It wasn’t significantly higher than in 2013, when...
Who’s getting fired after Tuesday’s school board elections?
Voters in Jefferson County and the Loveland-based Thompson School District sent their school boards a clear message Tuesday night: “Get along, willya?”
Tired of the...
Koch-backed ads raise the propaganda pitch in Colorado
The free-market group Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaires David and Charles Koch, has been releasing a string of painfully earnest ads.
A recent spot...
Tracking the money funding conservative school boards’ anti-union lawsuits
It’s not just Koch brother money funding the anti-union, pro-privatization takeover of school boards. In Colorado, mainstream community foundations are in on the game...
Ties bind conservative school boards’ anti-union attacks
The most recent battle in the conservative attack on teachers’ unions erupted in Loveland’s Thompson School District. The fight comes in the wake of...