the city said that it had come to the city council’s attention that “imminent action by the Woodland Park School Board is directly aimed at impairing the prerogative of this Council to act in the best interests of City voters with respect to the tax……all for the benefit of a single charter school in the district.”
— Read on krdo.com/news/2025/03/10/woodland-park-city-council-votes-to-repeal-sales-tax-that-provides-millions-to-school-district-each-year-2/

Council members said their decision was in response to several district actions they say have broken trust with the council and the community, including “insufficient” sales tax spending reports, closing and merging school buildings, and the recent consideration to sell the district’s charter school building to the charter school.
— Read on www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/woodland-park-city-council-changes-course-votes-unanimously-to-remove-city-sales-tax

WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) – The Woodland Park School District says Superintendent Ken Witt is resigning, effective April 15. OTHER REPORTING: Woodland
— Read on krdo.com/news/2025/03/07/woodland-park-school-district-superintendent-to-resign/

Following repeated threats, compromises and a vote put forth to local taxpayers, Woodland Park’s city council unanimously voted to suspend an ordinance indefinitely to repeal a local sales tax for its public schools during their heavily-attended meeting. The 1.09% sales tax has been in place since 2016 and most recently contributed over $3 million to Woodland Park RE-2’s general fund. Some council members had said revoking these funds is intended to hold the school district accountable for what they believe has been a lack of financial transparency.
— Read on gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/no-more-clown-show-woodland-park-kills-effort-to-repeal-school-sales-tax/article_00930332-fb95-11ef-b417-c7885df231d1.html

The Woodland Park School District Superintendent Ken Witt has announced his resignation which will be effective April 15.
— Read on www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/woodland-park-superintendent-announces-resignation-to-pursue-other-opportunities

The superintendent of the Woodland Park School District announced his plans to resign Friday, a day after the Woodland Park City Council voted to end a political fight that threatened
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The bill would require Colorado districts to have book challenge policies and only allow parents with children in a school to challenge a book at that school.
— Read on www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/02/11/school-library-bill-clears-first-legislative-hurdle/