Teacher pay has become a business issue

On a recent Saturday morning, Douglas County Schools Superintendent e woman was not a parent with a concern, or a teenager who remembered Kane from her days as a school principal. She didn’t recognize Kane from news coverage of the previous year’s school board sta ng and political tumult.

Erin Kane stopped at a Parker restaurant for breakfast burritos. e woman working behind the counter instantly recognized her and chatted her up.

She recognized Kane because she currently works for her – an employee of the Douglas County Schools working the second job she needs to pay rent.

In the 2022 election, Douglas County voters rejected ballot measures 5A and 5B which would have generated more revenue for salaries and top infrastructure

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Reformers Redux

On April 6, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN) will hold a Denver rally for conservatives supporting “parents’ rights” at the state Capitol. e related legislation in the US House pushed by MAGAs is no coincidence.

CPAN’s practical problem is clear … informed people here in DougCo won’t be sidetracked by the current right-wing triggers — “parents’ rights” and “woke.” We haven’t gotten over the damaging divisiveness of last year’s fake triggers — “critical race theory,” “Marxist teachers unions,” “teaching homosexuality and transgender in public schools” and more. Triggers concocted by the central planning process coming out of the dark-monied “libertarian in name only” think-tanks on the East Coast, with a helping of Bannonista rhetoric.

Our own DCSD has been besieged by the local Reformers mix since 2007 and before. Back then, there was a direct line from Reformers politics to the Koch-funded Tea Party and think-tanks Americans for Prosperity, American Enterprise Institute and the Independence Institute, among others.

CPAN is the latest of many darkmonied Reformer committees established to hornswoggle voters in the runup to DCSD and other school board elections in November. During CPAN’s November 2022 evening kicko , multi-layered connections between the current DCSD Board