jeffco recall
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A superintendent appeals for civility in advance of a potentially bruising school board race
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It’s easy enough to lay blame for our caustic political climate on last year’s presidential race and its aftermath, and that no doubt is a big factor. Yet, well before the Trump-Clinton cage fight, Jefferson County voters already had grown weary of election-time acrimony in their own backyard. The perennial grudge match over control of…
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Longtime JeffCo schools sooper back on the job — in Boulder
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Cindy Stevenson is no tenderfoot when it comes to controversy. The prominent, veteran schools administrator, who was chief exec of Jefferson County Public Schools – one of the state’s largest districts – for a dozen years, resigned that post in 2014 after a new school board came to power with a whole new, reformist agenda.…
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Noonan: School district mill, bond resolutions cannot resolve state underfunding
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Colorado’s public schools have experienced the short end of the money stick since the 2008 recession. From 2010, annual funding has run about $950 per year per student less than obligated. The state Legislature labels the gap as the “school finance negative factor.” That’s the crisis that many school districts want to mitigate through bond…
