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Jeffco school board candidates square off in first public forum
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What a different two years makes. The first forum for the five candidates vying for three seats on the Jefferson County Board of Education took place Wednesday night. Everyone was polite and civil and agreed more than they disagreed. But the lines were clearly drawn on several issues, most notably transparency around the district’s budget,…
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Politics of public education is percolating again in Douglas County
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Upscale and conservative Douglas County’s public schools have set the pace for education reform in recent years, developing a homegrown school-voucher program (stalled by an ongoing court challenge) and ending collective bargaining with the local teachers union. Reform of course is in the eye of the beholder, and the changes haven’t sat well with a…
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Ahead of conservative ALEC conference, protesters rally against ‘school choice’ policies
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A few hundred protesters gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday to protest school choice policies pushed by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council. Standing on the west steps of the Capitol, activists – led by teachers’ unions – held signs that read, “Vouchers = Theft,” with anti-U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos photos on them. Some…
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Q&A with Colorado’s Ed Jones: Walk a mile (or three) in this former state senator’s shoes
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Ed Jones has come a long way since his childhood in Hattiesburg, Miss., in the segregated South of the 1940s. After mustering out of the Army at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs in 1963, he made the city his new home. He would go on to run for office – and win – unheard of…