jen walmer
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Two new seats, high stakes in Colorado State Board of Education election
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Colorado’s State Board of Education is growing from seven to nine seats, and political control of the body that sets education policy could be at stake in November’s election. The addition of two seats due to Colorado’s growing population – one representing a new 8th Congressional District that includes Adams and Weld counties and another…
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NOONAN | Guv-elect thumbs nose at his party’s neighborhood school advocates
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Paula Noonan Mark Twain said, “I am dead to adverbs, they cannot excite me.” Gov.-elect Jared Polis didn’t get that message. He named his transition team website: “Boldly Forward.” Boldly forward heads badly backward is more accurate. Individuals on Polis’s transition team for education policy highlight the governor-elect’s in-your-face rejection of what almost all parents in…
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Activists protest Polis’ choices for education transition team
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A small but vocal group of public-education activists protested outside the Boulder office of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis Friday in opposition to choices the governor-elect made for his transition team on education. According to a Facebook Live feed of the event, about 20 showed up to “call out” Polis’ inclusion of education reformers on the…
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Polis’ 1st controversy as governor-elect: His picks for education transition team
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Friday’s announcement by Gov.-elect Jared Polis of who would work on his education transition team is generating controversy among some Colorado public education advocates. The team will be chaired by former Colorado State University President Al Yates and Elaine Gantz Berman, a member of the Colorado State Board of Education. But it’s other members…
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Activists post demands to DPS board for next superintendent
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About 50 community activists took to the sidewalks outside of the Denver Public Schools headquarters Monday to voice their concerns about the next superintendent of the 90,000-student school system. The group, known as Our Voice-Our Schools (OVOS), published a manifesto Monday afternoon that highlighted its wish list for the next superintendent. Among the requirements: no…
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Democrats for Ed Reform’s Colo. leader didn’t lobby illegally, secretary of state says, but …
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The office of Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams has cleared the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) on a complaint accusing her of lobbying lawmakers at the state Capitol without being a registered lobbyist. But in a May 16 letter to DFER Executive Director’s Jen Walmer and former research director Jack Teter,…
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DFER: Why Colo. Democrats threw it out of their state assembly
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On April 14, in what was the most dramatic moment in the Democratic Party’s state assembly, party activists won delegates’ assembly approval for a demand that the Colorado chapter of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) stop using the word “Democrat” in its name. The move exposed a deepening schism in the party over school choice…
