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September 16, 2009 03:36 AM UTC
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Students, teachers, parents, & taxpayers — in pursuit of avoiding the DPS debacle of a 52% dropout rate.
What on earth is next …. higher graduation requirements for English, Math, Sciences?
the God is My Co-Pilot School of Aviation Training? The Loaves and Fishes Hospitality Management Certification?
What’s the background on these elections — do they run by district, at-large, nonpartisan? And are there any credible opponents, or are these four taking on incumbents?
Thanks for the post.
Normally they’re non-district and non-partisan. Of course, “non-partisan” means no letter after their names, not no party support behind the scenes. Most of our local board members’ political affiliations are known, as are their beliefs in the school system itself…
If the system in Douglas works as it does in Gilpin, everyone’s name goes on the ballot; each voter can vote for X candidates, where X is the number of open seats, and the top X vote-getters are elected to the Board. In Douglas County, with its high Republican registration, that could spell trouble, especially if they can effectively team up to support each other.
I look forward to a number of years of flip-flopping control of the Douglas School Board, kind of like that in some Kansas districts. Every other 2 year cycle, the fringe right gains control, and Bad Things are done to the system; in the opposite 2 years, moderates gain control and try to undo the damage; when things start looking better, the radical right regains control. NOT an effective way to run your school system, but then, this isn’t about running a school system – it’s about scoring points for your political ideology.
From the DougCo schools site:
http://www.dcsdk12.org/portal/…
So if there are four director seats up this election, it’ll take another four years to wrest back control if the all-charter coalition takes over (because in the staggered term, only three directors are up for election, a minority). By then, it could be rather difficult to undo the damage if the traditional school system is dismantled …
It seems striking that I will recognize this slate of candidates when I read through my ballot, and I will have no recognition of the more reasonable candidates because you have not named them here. Maybe you could give them some ink. I heard that a parent group holding a candidate forum at one of Douglas County’s charter schools tomorrow evening.
I think you might investigate the politics of Douglas County a bit as well, when you call the DCF union a lap dog. They may not agree with the CEA on some things, but they have effectively organized employees in a place that is not very friendly to unions.
Hi MadMike, while I found your article quite interesting and entertaining I must comment. The Colorado League of Charter Schools is a 501c3 therefore we are prohibited from endorsing candidates or getting actively involved in political campaigns. This stands true in Douglas County. We have not endorsed any of the candidates for the DC school board.
Just to further set the record straight, the CO League of Charter Schools is not interested in turning Douglas County or any other school district into an all charter school district. We strongly believe in giving parents more choices when choosing their child’s public education. We believe charters are a great option. However we feel that parents should have the right to perform research and find the school that’s best for them and we are all for having multiple options from traditional public schools, to magnets, charters and even home schooling. However, when a parent chooses an option other than the traditional public school option, they should not be punished by having their child receive less funding. Each Douglas County student deserves equal funding and treatment when it comes to their education and we hope whichever candidates are elected will honor that. As for your theory about Bob Schaffer – we have no knowledge of Mr. Schaffer making a run for superintendent in Douglas County. It will be interesting to see how the school board race and superintendent selection in Douglas County pans out. If you have any questions or would like information from a real source at the CO League of Charter Schools please contact me anytime at srivera@coloradoleague.org. Sincerely, Stacy Rivera, Director of Communications, Colorado League of Charter Schools
I am a Douglas County parent and voter, and a Democrat, and I support the reform slate.
This county’s school district is overly bureaucratic, hostile to parental choice and charter schools, and notoriously opaque in its financial dealings.
We need a school board that will change that, and which will put in place a performance pay system for teachers.
Those ideas are not Republican or Democrat. They are good, solid, common-sense notions that will make the public schools better and result in better educated kids.
And I think it is absurd in the extreme to expect that the slate, if elected, will attempt to violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution by mandating the teaching of “creationism.” The members of the reform slate might be Republicans, but they aren’t stupid.
they are putting in vouchers. I have seen that they laid off security vetted grounds keepers and put in place, private groundskeepers. Now, I am for privatization, BUT, when I see ppl on my kids school ground wearing hoodies, with hood up, in 95F, then I am thinking that it is illegals, POSSIBLY with some real undesirables (if you are a pedophile, how could you get access to the children and not be spotted?).
And in the meantime, we are looking at 100K or more going to defend these vouchers and will see more than 11M move to all 6 private Christian schools, without a change in kids. IOW, we are about to throw away 11M from the district.
I know of several top-rated teachers that are now leaving the district. They said that it was going to be gutted. And here it is, they are right.
We are on our way to looking JUST LIKE DENVER OR AURORA SCHOOLS.