Jun 15, 2015
When Jeffco School Board Member John Newkirk compared unequal funding of education in the South due to racial discrimination in the last century to charter schools today in Colorado, there was much pearl clutching among board members who have been anti-charter school...
Jun 9, 2015
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that the war waged by the Jeffco teachers union against school district staff, particularly those in the communications office, was the most vitriolic in history. We couldn’t figure out why the union would be such abusive...
Jan 21, 2015
Our friends over at Complete Colorado have a great piece up about the never-ending embarrassment of the Jeffco Teachers Union and its supporters. At last week’s board meeting, a group with close ties to the union had one of its representatives disrupt the meeting by...
May 21, 2014
The Jefferson County School Board is in the process of picking a new superintendent, and resident naysayers just can’t handle it. The teachers’ union has begun to lose its ironclad grip on the district since a reform-focused majority was elected to the board in...
Feb 8, 2014
It looked like a mob scene with nearly 200 angry and bitter union activists flooding a Jefferson County School Board meeting this morning. Controversial superintendent Cindy Stevenson asked to be let out of her contract early and the board obliged. From a Jeffco...
