If you missed the meeting at the middle school yesterday, you can view it below.
Video of March 30 meeting to discuss Middle School space sharing with Merit
Monthly Archives: March 2022
Public meeting to discuss sharing Middle School with Merit Academy
There’s a public meeting this Wednesday, March 30th, at 6:00 in the Middle School Commons area, to discuss the board’s plan to let Merit Academy occupy a portion of the Middle School building starting next school year.
Woodland Park superintendent finalist to lead Anchorage School District
Superintendent Neal is a finalist for a position up in Anchorage. It does seem like a good opportunity, and him being stuck between the staff and a hostile school board can’t make for a fun work environment. Read more here.
Protest of Woodland Park school board latest in regional community dissent
A large turnout at a school board meeting is not a sign of things going well! Read more here.
Woodland Park school board president, vice president defend controversial emails obtained by CORA request
Article can be read here.
Update on Merit contract status
Since the board isn’t updating us on this process, I’m learning what I can via CORA requests. The latest is that Brad Miller sent a draft of the contract with Merit to another attorney after a brief one week review with Gustafson, Neal, and the outside consultant Tom Weston. This draft contract was sent on February 22, along with a document outlining benchmarks (source). The other attorney is Barry Arrington (arringtonpc.com), the person who signed the MOU on behalf of Merit (so we can assume he’s their legal counsel in this matter). My CORA request was focused on conversations between Gustafson and the Weston, and those conversations really dropped off after the draft contract was sent. So, I’ll need to submit a different CORA request to learn what’s been happening since.
If you’d like to read the results of that CORA request detailing talks between Gustafson and Weston, you can find all the documents here.
School Board Work Session scheduled for 3/16/2022
As per the agenda, “Members of the Board of Education will attend the Community Linkage meeting and meet with School Accountability Committee Members.” 6:00PM, in the District Office Large Conference Room.
The topic of discussion is not specified in the agenda.
Woodland Park School Board President says district broke no laws, but could’ve been more ‘transparent’
Read more at KRDO’s website.
13 Investigates: Concerns over process to bring new school into Woodland Park School District
KRDO has a story covering the happenings up in here in our school district, you can read it here or watch the video below. If you’re curious what questions KRDO asked of our board, you can view that email, obtained via CORA, here.
3/11 work session – board touring Summit
A work session for tomorrow, 3/11 has been announced. Agenda can be viewed here.
Time is 12-1:30; the only item in the agenda is, “Members of the Board of Education will be given a tour of Summit Elementary School”