Last week:

• We talked about how the district is not complying with the Colorado Open Records Act.
• The Woodland Park Student Alliance launched a teacher appreciation project.
• We discovered that the contract with Merit was amended to take more money from the public schools, shifting the cost of the charter liaison from Merit to the district.
• We talked about Aaron Salt, who we believe the district is hiring to a senior role in the administration.
• Our network passed along details of the plan being worked out to give Merit more space in the Middle School once sixth grade is kicked out after this school year.
• To help answer the question of what impact Witt’s refusal of grant money will have, we showed a presentation from December of 2021 talking about exactly what that grant money is used for.
• After a little digging, we came to the conclusion that Ken Witt’s amendment to the contract with Merit Academy is a violation of that contract.

Here’s what’s coming up this week:

• There’s a special board meeting this Wednesday, 6:00 (agenda). No public comment.
• This week is when schools typically find out what their staffing allowance is for the next year and can start figuring which positions need to be cut, and which need to be filled.