douglas county school district
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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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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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Colorado voters set to decide school board and city council races, contentious ballot measures
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Voters across Colorado finish casting ballots at 7 p.m. tonight, deciding city council and school board races as well as local ballot issues ranging from funding for affordable housing and limits on oil and gas drilling to road improvements and municipal high-speed internet. For the first time in eight years, though, there isn’t a statewide…
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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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Is the teachers union playing a covert role in DougCo school board race?
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Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics thinks so, based on some tips and evidence that came its way. The evidence includes photos taken surreptitiously inside Douglas County Federation offices by what Peak says was a disgruntled staffer at the union – showing lists of volunteers who will walk precincts, canvass neighborhoods and “talk to voters.” Peak…
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Advocacy juggernaut AFP rolls out the dough in DougCo pitch for school choice
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Promising “a well-rounded six-figure campaign,” pro-education reform behemoth Americans for Prosperity-Colorado announced it is launching a sweeping outreach effort to parents in the Douglas County School District, the state’s third-largest school system, to warn them “educational opportunity is in jeopardy.” The digital and direct-mail campaign, touted in a press release from the group this week, directs parents…
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Politics of public education is percolating again in Douglas County
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Upscale and conservative Douglas County’s public schools have set the pace for education reform in recent years, developing a homegrown school-voucher program (stalled by an ongoing court challenge) and ending collective bargaining with the local teachers union. Reform of course is in the eye of the beholder, and the changes haven’t sat well with a…
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Denver archbishop hails U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘welcome surprise’
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Whatever the implications of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer for a pending challenge of a school-voucher program in Douglas County, Denver’s influential Roman Catholic Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila sees the development as great news for religious freedom in general. That’s the upshot of a piece he penned last week for the…
