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New bill could help level charter school facilities funding playing field

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SB 26-145 is designed to strengthen procedural requirements for how districts consult with charter schools and consider their facility needs when planning bond questions. At its core, the bill would require districts that are considering submitting ballot questions to voters to more actively solicit and consider charter school capital construction needs.

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Podcast season 2 episode 4: After 50+ years, DPS may be about to dump Kaiser Permanente as a healthcare provider. How this could hurt 5,000 people

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On December 8, health care provider Kaiser Permanente sent a letter to the roughly 3,400 Denver Public Schools employees who receive its services informing then that DPS was dropping Kaiser as a provider. Our guest today is Rob Gould, president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. We delve deeply into this issue with Gould, whose members stand to bear the brunt of the possible consequences.

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Podcast episode 34: Denver school board member Kimberlee Sia on her hopes, vision for the next two years, and beyond

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Kimberlee Sia was elected to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education in 2023, representing southeast Denver’s District 1. She has two years remaining in her first term. In her career, Sia has been both a teacher and a school leader, so she came to her board service with some subject-matter expertise. She served as board treasurer during her first two years. Sia joined the podcast to discuss her hopes and visions for the next two years, as the board, with three new members, hods its first work session, and a retreat, next week. 

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Marrero and the mess in Chicago: a view from the Windy City

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Maureen Kelleher is a veteran Chicago education journalist, who now produces Board Rule, a deeply reported, weekly newsletter on Chicago Public Schools and its board. This article is from today’s edition of Board Rule. It focuses on the contentious search for a new CPS superintendent. Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero was one of two finalists for the job before the search process imploded, thanks to the usual craziness of Chicago politics. It’s well worth a read. Boardhawk is reprinting it with Kelleher’s permission.

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Podcast episode 31: Former DPS Vice-President Auon’tai Anderson on board member censures, other topics

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Former DPS board Vice-President Auon’tai Anderson reached out to Boardhawk editor Alan Gottlieb following two recent podcast episodes that mentioned Anderson’s own censure case while discussing the pending censure of board member John Youngquist. He asked to share his perspective on board censures. What followed was a wide-ranging conversation that should be of interest to listeners, regardless of their perceptions of and feelings about the outspoken former board member.

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DPS board races top $1 million, including $600,000 from Denver Families

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The four Denver school board races have drawn more than $1 million in campaign money in a spending sprint to the Nov. 4 election that will determine a board majority for at least the next two years. The single biggest contribution is $600,000 from Denver Families Action to the political committee Better Leaders, Stronger Schools, to support Alex Magaña, Mariana del Hierro, Timiya Jackson and Caron Blanke.

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Podcast episode 26: DPS parent Kristen Fry, whose federal defamation lawsuit against board members and their supporters will move forward after a judge’s recent ruling

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Hear Kristen Fry’s story of her Kafkaesque reputational execution at the hands of the Denver school board and superintendent.

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Denver school board candidates clash in lively debate as vote nears

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All 11 candidates for the four Denver Public Schools board seats squared off Tuesday night in a televised debate that generated some rare back-and-forth heat over everything from student achievement to the performance of Superintendent Alex Marrero. With ballots mailed Friday for the Nov. 4 election, a large crowd attended the debate at Regis University

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