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Your Voice: School Board Vacancy

November 4, 2016 By douglascountyparents

By Wendy Vogel, Parent and District A Board of Education Director Published online November 3, 2016 in Denver Post Your Hub The process to fill the vacancy in Director District E is the most important decision currently facing our board because it will set the stage for our effective operation and governance over the next year. This […]

Filed Under: Board of Education, Leadership Program of the Rockies, Letter to the Editor, Loss of Public Input, Outside Influences, Parent Voice, Peck, Transparency Tagged With: leadership program of the rockies, LPR, Peck, Transparency

Your Voice: Politics and Puppets in DougCo School District

November 1, 2016 By douglascountyparents

By Pat Crowley, Parent of 2 former DCSD students & Community member Published online October 31, 2016 in Denver Post Your Hub As we approach the one-year anniversary of the election of three new school board members, it has become painfully apparent that the old “reform” board members believe politics are more important than proper education […]

Filed Under: 2016, Benevento, Board of Education, Leadership Program of the Rockies, Letter to the Editor, Loss of Public Input, Outside Influences, Parent Voice, Peck Tagged With: leadership program of the rockies, LPR, outside influence, vacancy

Your Voice: Is technology replacing teachers in the Douglas County School District?

April 5, 2016 By douglascountyparents

By Pat Crowley, Parent of 2 former DCSD students & Community member Published online April 5, 2016 in Denver Post Your Hub As recently demonstrated by the protest of the students of Ponderosa High School, today’s students care deeply about their teachers and understand the important role that the teacher/student relationship plays in their education. […]

Filed Under: 2016, Education practices, Fagen, Letter to the Editor, Loss of Educational Opportunities, Parent Voice, Staff morale, Staff turnover, Teachers Focus, Wasteful Spending Tagged With: Fagen, fleeing teachers, misuse of tax dollars, parent voice, quality of education, teacher morale, technology

Your Voice: My declaration for education

September 8, 2015 By douglascountyparents

By Pat Crowley Community Member and Parents of 2 DCSD Graduates Published in print and online edition of YourHub I hold these truths to be self-evident. All children have educational rights according to the Colorado constitution. To secure those rights, school boards were created deriving their powers from the people. Whenever any school board becomes […]

Filed Under: 2015, General Overview, Letter to the Editor, Parent Voice Tagged With: 2015 Bond, behind closed doors, class size, pet projects

Letter to Editor: School district agenda hurts students

July 13, 2015 By douglascountyparents

By Dave Eck, Highlands Ranch July 9, 2015 Published in the Highlands Ranch Herald While Douglas County School District administrators spend countless time and resources pursuing a political agenda that only a handful of extremists care about, they fail to pay attention to something as basic as minimum class times for its students. Sheer ineptitude […]

Filed Under: $4 million Penalty, 2015, High Shool Schedule, Letter to the Editor, Loss of Educational Opportunities

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