on January 16, 2019 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Polling shows strong support for Denver teachers as strike looms – Denver Teacher’s Strike
79% of respondents agree that teacher pay in Denver falls short
82% of voters say they would support teachers if the DCTA & DPS cannot reach a new agreement this week. @DPSnewsnow #betterdenver
62% are in favor of Denver teachers going on strike this month @DPSnewsnow #betterdenver
on January 15, 2019 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Polling shows strong support for Denver teachers as strike looms – Denver Teacher’s Strike
79% of respondents agree that teacher pay in Denver falls short 82% of voters say they would support teachers if the DCTA & DPS cannot reach a new agreement […]
on January 11, 2019 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Denver Teacher’s will Strike – Why Denver can’t Pay teachers
In the days preceding a likely teachers strike from the teachers in Denver Public Schools, leaked payroll data has shattered the district’s claims. The school district has long faced criticism […]
on by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Denver Teacher’s Strike – Why Denver can’t pay teachers
In the days preceding a likely strike from the teachers in Denver Public Schools, a spreadsheet featuring payroll data leaked to Denver education activist Brandon Pryor has made rounds among […]
on by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Denver Teacher’s Strike – Why Denver can’t pay teachers
In the days preceding a likely strike from the teachers in Denver Public Schools, a spreadsheet featuring payroll data leaked to Denver education activist Brandon Pryor has made rounds among […]
on December 27, 2018 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on AVALANCHE OF CASH THREATENS TO SUFFOCATE LOCAL CONTROL – #DPS
What could prompt a politically motivated group of oil company execs & Fortune500 CEOs to write $25,000 checks for a school board race in a community where they neither live […]
on December 23, 2018 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on DPS Superintendent Susana Cordova Profited from Charter Deals
DPS Superintendent Susana Cordova Profited from Charter Deals
on December 12, 2018 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Shepherd -The ghost of Susan Shepherd shadows NW as David Sabados runs for City Council
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4d0w8KObP4 David Sabados has functioned campaigns from local school board to presidential races and several in between. Whether it’s assisting a city council prospect recognize the voting demographics of their […]
on September 28, 2018 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Golden Police Arrest Officer for Alleged Sexual Exploitation of a Child
On July 3, 2018, the Golden Police Department initiated a criminal investigation into a possible child pornography case after receiving information from another law enforcement agency. The investigation identified […]
on September 10, 2018 by Staff in Uncategorized, Comments Off on Privatization in the darkness at Denver Public Schools
While there are visible public fights going on over the search for new Superintendent for Denver schools, a more invidious effort to privatize public schools is happening is virtual darkness. […]
Colorado Peak Politics
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Talks collapse, Denver teachers to vote on strike Vote takes place Saturday and Tuesday 
The Denver teachers union will hold a vote on whether to strike
after months of negotiations over pay ended in deadlock. The
bargaining team of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and
officials with Denver Public Schools met all day Friday and
exchanged several proposals, but they could not close a gap of more
than $8 […] |
Those seeking to limit the influence of money in Colorado
politics can only do so much. Reformers would love to limit
campaign expenditures, for example, but the U.S. Supreme Court has
ruled that states can’t impose any mandatory limits on how much
candidates and outside groups spend, nor can they change the fact
that tax-exempt […] |
Littwin: How hot does a smoking gun need to be before Trump is truly burned? 
Updated at 6:40 p.m. My first reaction to the
no-longer-so-explosive Buzzfeed report that Donald Trump had
directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the timing of his
negotiations for a Moscow Trump Tower was that, yeah, of course he
had. I love how Trump’s TV lawyer Rudy Giuliani always paints Cohen
as a lying […] |
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Denver district, teachers union make some progress as contract deadline looms, but still far apart 
Update: At 5:15 p.m. Friday, Erica Meltzer blogged that
Denver Public Schools administrators came back to the bargaining
table and offered teachers the opportunity to move up a “lane” into
a different pay category through additional education without
having to earn a master’s degree. They brought no additional money
to the $20.5 million that the […] |
As a high school guidance counselor and president of the
Colorado Education Association (CEA), I have seen up close and
personal the promise of education and what it means for students,
families and our society. However, a paradox between our state’s
current prosperity and underfunding of schools hurts us all.
Imagine if Colorado’s support for […] |
The vultures are circling again. But I’m sick of the
metaphor. It’s time for a new one.
In coverage of The Denver
Post’s cost-cutting hedge-fund owners,
the caricature has been a vulture, circling dead and
dying things, picking at carcass bones of a shriveled-up
newspaper chain rotting on the side of our
late-capitalist highway to some future hell where local
newspapers no longer exist. Which brings me to […] |
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DCTA Proposal Sets Stage to Reach Fair Agreement with DPS on Final Bargaining Day On Thursday, the two sides were so far apart as to be talking
different languages. Will Friday bring a different Tower of Babel
to the now imminent Denver teacher’s strike? The Denver Classroom
Teachers Association made a counterproposal yesterday in public
bargaining with Denver Public
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Colorado’s prisons are 99 percent full, and the inmate
population is projected to rise. But Democratic Gov. Jared Polis,
who has made criminal justice reform one of his priorities as the
state’s new governor, has so far held off on opening another
prison. Unlike his predecessor, John Hickenlooper, Polis is not yet
sold on adding […] |
Littwin: In taking on Trump’s shutdown wall, Pelosi decides to build one of her own 
It’s another day for Democrats to be thankful that Ed
Perlmutter, Jason Crow and the other resisters failed in their bid
to take away Nancy Pelosi’s gavel. Nearly four weeks into the
shutdown showdown, the once and present speaker of the
House has hit Donald Trump where it really, truly hurts —
right below his #MAGA […] |