Tag: Vouchers
Lawsuit from conservative group challenges Douglas County voucher program barring religious...
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on April 19, 2016
A conservative legal group representing three Douglas County families filed a federal lawsuit...
DougCo won’t fund religious schools, private schools still a go
Douglas County’s school board may have decided it has little chance of winning a U.S. Supreme Court battle defending a program that uses taxpayer...
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...
Merrifield’s Back, Ready To Thwack
The understatement of the year, so far, would be that state Rep. Michael Merrifield has had a bit of a rough patch.
On Jan. 3,...
Morse: Merrifield’s Enemies Have “Overreached”
State Sen. John Morse has one thing to say about some people who are continuing to viciously attack Rep. Michael Merrifield, including actually making...
Hellfire And Damnation
It all started with Al Franken calling Rush Limbaugh a Big Fat Idiot. Well not, really. Rush Limbaugh kind of started it first, with...
Voucher Argument Fails Republicans
School vouchers are still a hot topic in some Republican circles in Colorado, particularly in one Jefferson County race where education issues have always been a top priority.
The vouchers issue probably single-handedly killed the campaign of Republican Ramey Johnson in House District 23 (Lakewood and Golden) in 2004. Johnson was the incumbent state representative at the time, and after a tough challenge from Democrat Gwyn Green, she ended up losing by just a few dozen votes when the final ballots were meticulously counted weeks after the election.