“They get to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and Dia de los Muertos here. They get to experience these holidays with others outside our home that know what they are. And it’s made a good connection with my grandparents because as they’ve gotten older they speak more Spanish than they do English, and so it’s nice to see that.” — Salida del Sol parent Tara White.
This is Leung’s fourth attempt at a school board seat. He ran and lost in 2009. He applied for an appointment in 2013 and lost. He then filed to run for an open seat in 2013, but withdrew.
Proponents say since charter school students are public school students, and they should have equal access to money collected through property taxes.
Before Benevento could speak, however, Lemieux, who often argues with the board majority members, stomped away from her seat to the back of the room after she was not selected to act as chairwoman for that portion of the meeting.
“We’ve known since 2014 the national union was involved,” Atwell said. “It’s unfortunate that the Jeffco voters were unaware of it until now.”
The Colorado Education Association (CEA) donated $3,500 to two Steamboat Springs Board of Education candidates they hope will flip the reform tide in Steamboat Springs.
Plain hard facts are needed. So over the next couple of weeks, I will be doing a series of stories breaking down the claims of those behind Jeffco United to let you decide what to believe.
Preliminary cost estimates for the recall are somewhere between $500,000 and $650,000. Additionally, if any of the targeted officials are not recalled, the district must reimburse them for their campaign costs up to $10,000 each.
If the rumor of a mass student walkout planned for multiple high schools in the Thompson School District is true, its organizers have done a good job of keeping it
Open records requests to the Jefferson County School district have been met with obfuscating “interpretations,” time delays that appear to be outside of the legal limits allowed by the law, and with potentially illegal hourly charges for legal review of the documents requested.
At issue for Kerrigan, Carlson, and Rice was the belief that the district’s negotiating team had not followed the direction the board had set. Based on consensus guidance given at the April 1 meeting, a majority of the board members wanted to move ahead with negotiation on moving many items currently in the contract into a handbook, piloting a pay-for-performance model in 2016-17, and looking into having teachers share a part of the rising costs of retirement and insurance benefits.
Steve Zansberg, attorney and president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, says the law is ambiguous and subject to an interpretation that prohibits these types of meetings.
“Prop 104 defines a local public body as any group that meets with representatives of the teachers union to discuss labor contract, regardless of how small a group attend the meeting,” Zansberg said. “Under (this) interpretation, there can be no meeting of two members of the school board or its administration with union representatives that is not conducted in the open.”
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