As expected, this was a busy week

• The Courier published a great letter from local resident Carol Greenstreet, read it here.
• We received CORA results for emails related to Ken Witt’s decision to remove “Between the World and Me” from the curriculum in a high school elective class, read more here.
• 107 people turned out for a school board meeting on Wednesday
  • We saw many new people speaking out in the public comments section
  • Witt did a first reading of proposed changes to GP-5, to change it to focusing only on the educational interests of students (examples of non-educational interests that would no longer be a priority would be things like bullying, LGBTQ+, pronouns, etc).
  • The board voted to modify the district calendar for next school year (when ready, it will be posted here).
• The district announced it would halt withholding/processing of union dues from teachers’ paychecks, effective immediately.
• An astute supporter put together a detailed ‘connecting the dots’ document helping explain the connections between some of the people in this saga.
• A bill is advancing in the Colorado State Legislature that would provide state-level ethical oversight of local school boards.
• We received clarification from the Colorado Department of Education on what they are will and able to do if a school district is suspected of not meeting state education standards, such as social studies.
• Girl Scout cookies are now on sale! 🙂

Here’s what’s going on this coming week

• Last week, we were expecting to be featured in a couple new media channels…that has been delayed, we’re hoping for this week. Stay tuned here.
• We do not believe Witt and this board have abandoned plans to expand charter schools in this district after Third Future backed out; we’re watching this issue closely.