discipline
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School administrators’ discipline records not subject to disclosure, appeals court rules
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Disciplinary records for public school administrators are not subject to disclosure thanks to a law shielding materials used in preparing educator evaluations, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals noted administrators’ disciplinary histories are factors in their evaluations, thereby landing within an exception to the state’s open records…
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Colorado Springs lawmakers clash over banning corporal punishment in schools | FOCUS ON THE SPRINGS
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Rep. Regina English’s bill to prohibit corporal punishment in schools and child care centers cleared the House this week – but not before she battled it out with fellow lawmakers from the Colorado Springs delegation. If passed into law, House Bill 1191 would ban willfully causing physical pain to a child as punishment by employees…
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Culture, discipline, access take center stage at judicial oversight hearings
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Members of the General Assembly’s judiciary committees pressed the chief justice and his top administrator on Wednesday about planned reforms to improve workplace culture and access to justice for litigants, with specific questioning about a forthcoming directive on virtual hearings. Representatives from the state’s commission on judicial discipline also spoke at length, alerting lawmakers to…
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Chief justice tells legislature about accomplishments, planned reforms to judiciary
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Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright on Friday told the legislature the state’s judicial branch is making progress on diversity and workplace culture, while warning lawmakers about the need to address low compensation and problematic levels of turnover. Boatright also threw his endorsement behind two new proposals that would reform the process for disciplining judges, including an amendment…
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Judge grants immunity to Cherry Creek schools officials who expelled student over anti-Semitic ‘joke’
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Although the federal appeals court based in Denver decided last year that Cherry Creek School District officials violated the constitutional rights of a student by expelling him for an off-campus social media post, a judge on Friday concluded they could not be sued for their actions after all. Last July, the U.S. Court of Appeals…
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‘I’ve never seen anything like that’: State Supreme Court weighs discipline for divorce attorney
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Prominent family law attorney Brenda L. Storey said she was wrongly punished for simply asking a client in a divorce case to pay her, and for ultimately using money from the marriage toward her bill — a common practice in such proceedings. The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, which prosecutes lawyer discipline cases, took a vastly…
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Federal judge cites no power to review Colorado Supreme Court decision, rejects discipline lawsuit
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Citing the longstanding prohibition on federal judges reviewing decisions of state courts, a magistrate judge has tossed a lawsuit from a paralegal who sought to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s 2019 sanction of her. Susan Renee Zebelman Vigoda of Boulder sued the state’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, among others, for its investigation of her…
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Children of color making progress, but not enough, new report says
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A new report that looked at the progress of Colorado children on education, health and economic milestones found that while children of color are making progress, it isn’t enough. The Colorado Children’s Campaign Tuesday released that national report, known as Race for Results, which was conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy that…
