Our little school district has been popping up in the news all over the place for the past couple years. If you’re new to all this though, I wanted to highlight some of the online articles that provide a more in-depth look into what’s going on here:
NBC (national) featured us last spring:
- ‘Trump was great at this’: How conservatives transformed a Colorado school district – by Tyler Kingcase who visited our town to research this
- Colorado community divided over school board takeover – NBC reporter Antonia Hylton reports in this video
Jenny Brundin with Colorado Public Radio (CPR) has written many stories about Woodland Park:
- Woodland Park School District adopts conservative American Birthright social studies standards after the state board rejected them
- A Woodland Park educator stood up for her students — and lost her job
- More than two dozen Woodland Park teachers and staff call out sick protesting school changes
- Gag orders on teachers, cutting mental health support, operating in the dark — what’s happening in Woodland Park?
- Where school boards and politics meet
- Woodland Park school board has ‘chilled’ free speech and violated open meetings law, according to Colorado teachers union lawsuit
- Woodland Park teachers defy ban on speaking out publicly; allege district’s policies are harming students
The deepest investigative work though has to be Logan Davis with the Colorado Times Recorder. Check these out:
- The Small Colorado Town at the Center of Far-Right Plans for American Schools
- The Specialists: A Woodland Park Investigation
- American Birthright: A Woodland Park Investigation
- Buying the Birthright: A Woodland Park Investigation
- Secret Audio Recording Reveals Inner-Workings of Woodland Park Takeover
- Onward Christian Soldiers – A Woodland Park Investigation
- Letter to the Editor: Wommack Ministries Responds To ‘Onward Christian Soldiers – A Woodland Park Investigation’
- Andrew Wommack, a Woodland Park Preacher, Wants His Followers to Rule the World
- Fear & Loathing in Woodland Park
- This November’s School Board Elections Are More Important Than You Think