Last Week:

• The board meeting on Wednesday 10/11 drew the Charis students out in force; their sudden interest in school board meetings meant a few dozen people were locked out of the meeting as the room reached capacity. With the preceding week featuring the letter of protest signed by 81 staff members, several community members had reached out to the board to ask that the 10/11 meeting be moved to one of the larger venues used for some board meetings in the past. The board chose not to do so. If you missed the meeting, you can watch it here.
  • 33 people signed up to speak during the public comment session; only 15 were given the opportunity to be heard.
  • Watch KOAA’s coverage of that meeting.
• The teacher press conference from the previous Thursday, where they read the letter signed by 81 staff members, drew more coverage in the press. Here are some links: 9News, CBS Colorado
• The district released a statement regarding the teachers speaking out, and also sent an email to parents. You can read them here.
• Monday the 9th was the night of competing candidate forums, with the incumbents choose the district one, and the challengers choosing the one put on by the Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce. If you missed the chamber forum, you can view it here. The district has not made available a recording of their forum.
• The community has learned that many high school classes still have not been reviewed for NCAA eligibility.
• The Woodland Park High School students announced more details of their upcoming forum on 10/21 (10:00, in the public library). No word yet on how many of the six candidates will be attending. This is a student-led forum with questions only accepted from students, but it’s open to the public.
• What kind of leader did the board choose for our district? You can watch Ken Witt talk to staff from back in March in this video.
• Logan Davis wrote many articles about our district, and appeared on a new podcast here.
• Read the letters to the editor for the Courier, and also this guest column.
• The board chose people to be on the SAC and DAC committees.
• Woodland Park School District has been in the news a ton lately…here’s a summary of the stories from some of the larger news organizations which have done deeper dives into these stories.

Here’s what’s coming up this week:

• Ballots are being mailed out Monday!