debora scheffel
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Gun self-defense in 4th grade? No, says Colorado education board
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The Colorado Board of Education voted June 13 along party lines to changes in standards for teaching health and physical education, but omitted a proposal to teach fourth graders about the benefits of guns for self-defense. The proposal was first floated last month by Republican Debora Scheffel, who represents the 4th Congressional District on the…
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Guns for self-defense by 10-year-olds?
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Update: 11 a.m. June 8: Board member Debora Scheffel, who proposed the amendment, told Colorado Politics she’s withdrawing the amendment because it’s “misunderstood.” The Colorado State Board of Education next week will decide on whether to add amendments to the state’s comprehensive standards for Colorado public education – including one proposed amendment that would promote…
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Faced with residency questions, Board of Education candidate says she ‘couch surfed’
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In the wake of questions about where Colorado State Board of Education candidate Debora Scheffel currently lives, the candidate and a Republican Party official tell of many moves over the last few years and point to recently updated voter registration records. Scheffel was appointed in January to fill a vacancy on the state board for…
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Residency questions hit candidate for Colo. education board
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Debora Scheffel, who has been trying for three years to get elected to a board of education, is now facing questions about whether she lives in the Parker home that is listed on her voter registration records. That home, at 12067 Summit Ridge Road in Parker, appears to be vacant. Douglas County assessor’s records show…
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Candidates for legislature, state board of education qualify for ballot by petition
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Three legislative candidates and one candidate for the State Board of Education have successfully petitioned onto the June primary ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday – although one of them just made it, with only a dozen signatures to spare. To get on the ballot for those offices by petition, candidates must…
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Tim Krug announces bid for State Board of Education from 4th Congressional District
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Tim Krug, who went from outraged over the treatment of a Douglas County high school student to working to elect a new school board, announced he is running for the State Board of Education from the 4th Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Debora Scheffel, who was appointed last week to fill the…
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SLOAN: Are only the teachers unions paying attention?
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It is not inaccurate to say that the future of education reform, at least in the near term, rides heavily on the outcome of the Douglas County School Board race. Gauging by the amount of money they are throwing at it, the teachers unions would agree. Here’s why: in 2011 the incumbent reform-minded board instituted…
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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,…
