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What if they held an election and (almost) nobody ran for office?
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…That’s more or less what’s happening in nine – count ’em, nine – of the Pikes Peak region’s 17 school districts in this fall’s balloting, reports The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Debbie Kelley. A host of school board seats are uncontested in those districts; in some cases, there aren’t even enough candidates to fill board vacancies.…
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Colorado teacher shortage is ‘creeping toward a crisis’
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The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Debbie Kelley offers further insights into the state’s shortage of schoolteachers, and she looks at the issues from a frontline perspective. After noting legislation recently signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper to study the shortage and ultimately make recommendations for legislation, Kelley talks to educators in the trenches. They’re the folks who…