Last Week:
- Read the latest letters to the editor in the Courier.
- The Woodland Park School District was named in two new lawsuits last week. The first involves parent Jessica Pool and involves first amendment rights on religion. The second is another first amendment lawsuit, this one involving former district employee Logan Ruths who found himself banished from district property for a full year after speaking out in a board meeting in June.
- The Colorado Times Recorder obtained an audio recording of attorney Brad Miller speaking about how he helped enact these changes in Woodland Park.
- The three people challenging the board incumbents in this fall’s election (Seth Bryant, Keegan Barkley, and Mike Knott) released a single website that links to their different pages, http://www.wpsdkids1st.com/. Much easier to share with people than having to send three.
Here’s what’s coming up this week:
- School Board meeting Wednesday, August 9th, 6:00PM in the district conference room (link to agenda). We have no reason to expect the board to open up the overflow room or move this to the auditorium like some past meetings have been, so plan on attendance being limited to the first 90 people. The agenda says they’ll be taking action on updates to the Facilities Usage Agreement, and Charter Agreement, with Merit Academy. They have not posted details about what those updates entail.
- School starts in just over two weeks, and the district has not announced any plans to provide a security presence in our schools. They refused to work with the WPPD on SROs, but will be discussing this topic in executive session this Wednesday so I’m hopeful they’ll put a plan in place before school starts.