A lot of voters may not have a clue how much money is raised and spent in their local school board races. Plenty of those voters also may not know where all that campaign cash comes from in the first place.

It isn’t necessarily for lack of interest so much as a lack of knowledge about how to follow the money. And there certainly can be a lot of money to follow, at least, in competitive races in Colorado’s largest school districts. School board races this November in Denver, Jefferson County and Douglas County, among other places, are all promising to be hotly contested and well-funded.

Which is why the Denver League of Women Voters is hosting a public briefing on the subject – sort of a how-to session to enlighten the public on the basics of school board election finance. As a league press release this week informs us, topics will include, “outside spending, contributions to candidates and disclosures.”

Here’s more from the press release:

School board races are notoriously ignored by many, especially those who do not have children in school.

Monday, October 16, at 5:30 p.m. at Montview Presbyterian Church (in Denver), the League of Women Voters of Denver will hold a public briefing on the funding of school board campaigns. Few people know that there are no campaign limits for school board elections in Colorado, nor do they really know who is funding these campaigns. This information applies not only to the city of Denver but to all school board races in Colorado.

The guest speaker – attorney and all-round election-finance expert Peg Perl, formerly of public watchdog Colorado Ethics Watch (and candidate for Denver clerk and recorder) – will take to the podium and dish out her considerable knowledge base.

Here are more particulars:

Where:  Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia Street, McCollum Room

When:  Monday, October 16, 2017. Coffee and networking will start at 5:30 pm with the presentation itself at 6 p.m.