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A LOOK BACK | Local Dems encourage Schroeder presidential bid

Oct 1, 2022

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Rachael Wright

Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: In an effort to encourage a rumored announcement from Colorado U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-CD1, that she would be seeking the Democratic nomination for president, a bevy of Colorado political figures were putting together “Run-Pat-Run” parties across south-central Denver. “She’s very exciting and will lend a great deal of substance…
Polis seeks new meeting with Denver district, teachers; state labor chief decries ‘political theater’

Feb 4, 2019

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Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado

Criticizing the most recent teacher pay bargaining session as “political theater,” the head of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment sent a memo to the Denver school district and teachers union Monday urging both sides to work harder to find common ground – even as he expressed skepticism that the two sides would reach…
WATCH: Denver teachers to vote on strike after contract talks fail

Jan 19, 2019

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9News

Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, the union for DPS teachers, failed to make a deal to avoid a strike Friday night. DCTA members were expected to vote all day Saturday and Tuesday night on whether to walk out. A two-thirds “yes” vote is needed to authorize a strike. The earliest a…
WATCH: Denver schools superintendent, union chief discuss looming teacher strike

Jan 17, 2019

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9News

Denver Public Schools teachers are planning to take a strike vote Saturday unless they can work out their differences with district officials on a new contract. The Denver Classroom Teachers Association, with 5,600 members working for DPS, is negotiating with the district, but as of Thursday the two sides were far apart. In the attached…
Final pre-election fundraising numbers show DPS candidates over the half-million dollar mark

Nov 6, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

Unless there’s a final, major GOP rush to the ballot box, both ballot return numbers and fundraising indicate the three incumbents running for the Jefferson County school board are likely to be re-elected next Tuesday. And in the Denver Public Schools, fundraising by the 10 candidates has exceeded $641,000, with spending just shy of a…
Colorado’s public charter schools: not really privatized after all

Nov 1, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

There’s election rhetoric, and there’s reality. Hence, the election mailers sent to Denver households recently accusing the incumbent Denver Public Schools board and administration of “ceding space to a for-profit charter school.” It’s no secret the Denver Classroom Teachers Association – the local union that helped fund the mailers through its donations to an independent…
Fundraising for school board candidates show lopsided differences in Jeffco, DPS

Oct 18, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

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,…
Which slate to vote for in Denver’s school board race? Depends whom you ask

Aug 8, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

As we’ve noted here before, a lot is at stake in the upcoming Denver Public Schools board election this fall. Years of education reforms ushered in by a succession of pro-refom board majorities haven’t sat well with the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, among others, in the state’s largest school district. Charter schools, innovation schools, assorted…
The tug-of-war continues over the destiny of the state’s largest school district

Jul 13, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It seems like a political paradox: Some of the nation’s largest inner-urban school districts – longtime strongholds of teachers unions and their anti-reform orthodoxy – arguably have been among the boldest in experimenting with a wide range of reforms. Maybe those districts’ hard-pressed school boards – their backs to the wall for so many years…
Open school board talks — up to a point — courtesy of Colorado voters

Jun 28, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Remember the uproar over Proposition 104 on the 2014 statewide Colorado ballot? Neither do we. Actually, we didn’t recall the ballot issue at all until noticing a mention of it this morning in go-to education news source Chalkbeat Colorado. Chalkbeat’s Melanie Asmar reports that Denver Public Schools – the state’s largest school district – declared…