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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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Americans for Prosperity Colorado to try one last time to save voucher program in DougCo
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Is there any way to save the Douglas County voucher program from its all-but-certain demise on Monday? Americans for Prosperity Colorado (AFP), which spent “six figures” during the election season trying to persuade voters to support the then-board majority’s reform efforts, announced Friday it would try. David Ray, president of the Douglas County board of…
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DougCo board wastes no time, will deal with voucher program Monday
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The Douglas County school board plans to discuss and potentially end the district’s controversial voucher program in a special meeting on Monday, Dec. 4. Board President David Ray announced that the board would take up the voucher program on Monday at the end of the board’s Tuesday night meeting, which included the swearing-in of four…
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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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Douglas County game changer: Student Grace Davis
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A handful of students from Ponderosa High School who spoke to Colorado Politics before the polls closed in Douglas County Tuesday night didn’t have much to say about the school board election. But there was one student who followed the election results with more than just a passing interest. Grace Davis is now a…
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Elevate Douglas County slate insists it is not pro-voucher
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For the past three months, a slate of four candidates, known as Elevate Douglas County, has championed the issue of “school choice” as they prepare for Tuesday’s election. The term “school choice,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, is just one way to describe vouchers, which is the biggest issue for voters to…
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Gloves come off in DougCo’s hotly contested school board race
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Douglas County Republicans have come out swinging following news this week that a national teachers union has contributed $300,000 to an independent expenditure committee supporting a union-friendly slate of school board candidates in the upcoming election. The cash windfall comes from the American Federation of Teachers, whose local affiliate Douglas County Federation of Teachers lost…
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Fundraising for school board candidates show lopsided differences in Jeffco, DPS
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JEFFERSON COUNTY In Jeffco, school board candidate fundraising appears to be a tale of the haves and have nots. Two of the three incumbents on the school district’s board of education have out-raised their opponents by margins of at least 15 to 1. The third incumbent, board chair Ron Mitchell, raised almost $33,000 through last Friday,…
