ann schimke
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All politics is local — and that goes for local school districts, too
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Poor Jason Glass. The Jefferson County Schools sooper, just hired a few months ago, seems to have stumbled into a sticky situation in the wake of the recent violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a well-intentioned email to parents the other day, Glass offered assurances the district, “will work to ensure that we meet…
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Chalkbeat: Could rural schools use a dose of discipline reform after all?
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Education must-read Chalkbeat Colorado’s recent research into how discipline is meted out in the state’s schools suggests a pattern of unequal schoolhouse justice that may even reach out into Colorado’s rural climes. And it could be of consequence to a bill on school discipline that is now idling — on life support? — in a Senate committee. As…
