douglas county school district
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SLOAN | The new lesson plan in DougCo schools: Teach kids to hustle for tax dollars
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There is considerable buzz currently about where the line resides, if it still does, delineating the boundary beyond which activity in pursuit of political aims is considered distasteful enough to warrant sanction. Given the parameters of the current contentions, the Douglas County School District’s actions in pursuit of a tax increase hardly constitute the most…
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‘Emergency’ alert to DougCo parents turns out to be pitch for an upcoming tax hike
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It’s every parent’s nightmare: Your phone buzzes; a notification for an incoming email from your kids’ school district reads “Emergency.” You’re instructed to click onto an audio message; your fingers fumble for the arrow, and the local school board president says in a solemn tone that he is “calling you with some important information.” You’re…
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Douglas County school board ends controversial voucher program
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The Douglas County school board Monday put to bed the district’s controversial Choice Scholarship program, ending a six-year battle to set up the nation’s only district-approved voucher program. The vote to end the voucher program, and the legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, was unanimous: six to nothing. One…
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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…