douglas county schools
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Federal judge dismisses religious discrimination lawsuit of ex-Douglas County schools administrator
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A former Douglas County high school administrator did not credibly allege he was discriminated or retaliated against because of his status as a Christian, a federal judge decided this week in dismissing the lawsuit. Corey McNellis worked at Ponderosa High School for 14 years and was the athletic director and assistant principal at the time…
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NOONAN: A+ Colorado slams public schools — but sidesteps issue of school finance
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A+ Colorado doesn’t have much good news to report on Colorado public schools, citing its updated research that shows how few of the state’s students enter the 300 most competitive colleges and universities in the country. Many high schools have no graduating seniors who will attend competitive higher ed institutions. The vast majority have fewer…
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The dinosaurs of the Douglas County School Board
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Innovation in education is happening across the United States, but unfortunately there are those who want to stand in the way of progress and cling to the past here in Colorado. And no one represents the past these days better than the Douglas County School Board, which recently voted to end a scholarship program that would have…
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In education: the power of a shared vision — and of listening
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Colorado’s recent elections have ushered in new school board members and, in some cases, new majorities. From Aurora and Douglas County this year to JeffCo before them, new boards are calling for new directions and priorities. These new leaders were, in part, elected because families felt ignored or that school boards were forging ahead in…
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NOONAN: Market-based pay, reform agenda repudiated in DougCo school board race
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Looks like Grace Davis got the last word in Douglas County over the school board election. The conservative, pro-voucher board turned over. Board candidates who support local school funding for public schools won the day. Davis is the student at Ponderosa High School who in 2016 sat through a nasty lecture from Meghann Silverthorn, school…
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Chalkbeat’s election post-mortem reminds us it’s all about the ground game
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Chalkbeat Colorado’s Nic Garcia offers a post-game analysis of last week’s school board elections that serves as a primer for political junkies and campaign tacticians of every stripe. Garcia dissects the highly successful efforts of teachers unions to regain ground they had lost to education reformers in three high-profile school districts – Denver’s, Aurora’s and…
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Election Day was a game changer for key Colorado school districts
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This turned out to be the year the teachers unions staged a comeback. Long on the defensive and losing members in Colorado and across the country amid expanding school choice and a rapidly shifting public education landscape, the unions dug in their heels. They opened their coffers and pushed back hard in Tuesday’s election against…
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Foes of school choice in DougCo rest their case on an odious policy with a dark history
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Debate surrounding state constitutional “Blaine Amendments,” which prohibit government aid to “sectarian” institutions, has reached a crescendo as a result of the high-profile school board race in Douglas County. As deeply consequential litigation over Blaine Amendments and parental choice hangs in the balance between two opposing slates of school board candidates, some anti-choice interest groups…
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Douglas County should expand, not limit, educational freedom
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It’s becoming harder for opponents of education freedom to come up with legitimate reasons families should not have more options when deciding the best possible education options for their children. The U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult with a pair of recent rulings, including one that said denying approximately 500 families in Douglas County the ability to…
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Colorado’s Catholics mobilize against the state’s ‘Blaine amendment’
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At first blush, it seems like an innocuous restatement of bedrock public policy: “No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.” That’s Article V, Sec. 34 of the…
