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Douglas County school board ends controversial voucher program
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The Douglas County school board Monday put to bed the district’s controversial Choice Scholarship program, ending a six-year battle to set up the nation’s only district-approved voucher program. The vote to end the voucher program, and the legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, was unanimous: six to nothing. One…
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DougCo school board likely to move quickly on voucher repeal
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The clock is ticking for a decision by the Douglas County School District Board of Education on its controversial voucher program. The election earlier this month of four anti-voucher candidates reshaped the board from 4-3 in favor of vouchers to 7-0 against, means that the voucher program is all but certain to be trash-canned –…
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Gloves come off in DougCo’s hotly contested school board race
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Douglas County Republicans have come out swinging following news this week that a national teachers union has contributed $300,000 to an independent expenditure committee supporting a union-friendly slate of school board candidates in the upcoming election. The cash windfall comes from the American Federation of Teachers, whose local affiliate Douglas County Federation of Teachers lost…
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Fundraising for school board candidates show lopsided differences in Jeffco, DPS
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JEFFERSON COUNTY In Jeffco, school board candidate fundraising appears to be a tale of the haves and have nots. Two of the three incumbents on the school district’s board of education have out-raised their opponents by margins of at least 15 to 1. The third incumbent, board chair Ron Mitchell, raised almost $33,000 through last Friday,…
