The commission must include persons from throughout the state as well as persons with disabilities and it must “reflect the ethnic diversity of the state.“
“The state has spent billions of dollars on parks and recreation, and now it is time to make education funding a state priority. Let’s allow the voters to decide which is a higher priority – education or recreation.” — Jerry Sonnenberg
“Liberty facilitates an environment where it’s not uncool to be smart. Our classmates push each other to be better through the things were involved in.” — Micaela McConahy
“Policing board members is a matter for the voters because we are accountable to them not to other board peers,” Sampayo said. “It takes our board focus off the kids and almost continues the political campaign situation. We don’t want that to be the direction that were going.”
A flyer recently mailed to Littleton Public Schools (LPS) residents asking them to contact their state legislators about an education funding plan cost the district nearly $10,000. LPS Superintendent
Open records requests to the Jefferson County School district have been met with obfuscating “interpretations,” time delays that appear to be outside of the legal limits allowed by the law, and with potentially illegal hourly charges for legal review of the documents requested.
At issue for Kerrigan, Carlson, and Rice was the belief that the district’s negotiating team had not followed the direction the board had set. Based on consensus guidance given at the April 1 meeting, a majority of the board members wanted to move ahead with negotiation on moving many items currently in the contract into a handbook, piloting a pay-for-performance model in 2016-17, and looking into having teachers share a part of the rising costs of retirement and insurance benefits.
Steve Zansberg, attorney and president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, says the law is ambiguous and subject to an interpretation that prohibits these types of meetings.
“Prop 104 defines a local public body as any group that meets with representatives of the teachers union to discuss labor contract, regardless of how small a group attend the meeting,” Zansberg said. “Under (this) interpretation, there can be no meeting of two members of the school board or its administration with union representatives that is not conducted in the open.”
The Jefferson County Public School District Board of Education has agreed to a higher starting salary structure for teachers with master’s degrees, initial salary placements and hard-to-fill positions. According to
The Jefferson County Public School District Board of Education has agreed to a higher starting salary structure for teachers with master’s degrees, initial salary placements and hard-to-fill positions. According to
The inner workings of a multi-school reconfiguration have left one Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education member feeling like he was hung out to dry and a Wheat Ridge
The inner workings of a multi-school reconfiguration have left one Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education member feeling like he was hung out to dry and a Wheat Ridge
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