douglas county board of education
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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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Douglas County game changer: Student Grace Davis
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A handful of students from Ponderosa High School who spoke to Colorado Politics before the polls closed in Douglas County Tuesday night didn’t have much to say about the school board election. But there was one student who followed the election results with more than just a passing interest. Grace Davis is now a…
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Cold, fog, sense of urgency accompany Douglas County voters to the polls
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PARKER – Mainstreet in Parker is busy with traffic this cold, foggy Tuesday Election Day in November. Kids out of school for the day are hanging out at the the McDonald’s just a block away. No one is waving signs or honking horns for the candidates. There isn’t a political sign to be seen for…
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Voter suppression complaints hitting both sides in Douglas County
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It must be Election Day because complaints about harassment and voter suppression in one of the nation’s most-watched school board elections have begun to surface. The campaign manager for a slate of conservative education reformers known as Elevate Douglas County charged that an independent expenditure committee, Douglas Schools for Douglas Kids, has been sending out…
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Latest mega-contribution in DougCo school board race draws scrutiny, complaint
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A boatload of cash has been pouring into some Denver-area school board races – particularly in the make-or-break face-off over control of the Douglas County School District’s board of education. The board has been run since 2009 by a succession of reform-minded majorities whose agenda has included enacting a school-voucher program (as-yet unimplemented amid a…
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Dollars starting to pour in for hotly contested Colorado school board races
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In the battle for two of the hottest school board races in Colorado, dollars are starting to flow in, just a little more than three weeks before Election Day. In Douglas County, an independent expenditure committee for the Colorado Republican Party has put in more than $20,000 into two advertising buys supporting the conservative education…
