4/30/2023 Weekly Update

Last Week:

  • Staff received their contracts for ’23-24 late last week, and have ten days to sign and return them. There was no talk of a performance-based pay scale, no changes there.
  • Amy Ryan started work in the newly-created CFO position; longtime Business Manager Mona Larsen submitted her resignation.
  • HB23-1065, a Colorado bill to create ethics oversight of government bodies like school boards, made it out of committee and is advancing.
  • We published the latest email obtained under CORA of Illingworth belittling a parent.
  • We published a resignation letter obtained under CORA, baseball coach and HS teacher Kyle Crawford signing out the board’s actions as his reasons for resigning.
  • We published an anonymous letter from another WPSD teacher.

Here’s what’s coming up this week:

  • No board meetings are currently scheduled for this week.
  • The board is expected to review the preliminary ’23-24 budget in its May 10th board meeting.