In what’s likely to be U. S Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) only live debate with her Democratic opponent Trisha Calvarese, Boebert attacked government spending as reckless and called for large-scale initiatives like minimizing or defunding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By default, middle school students in El Paso County’s Academy District 20 schools can no longer access school library materials until a parent or guardian signs a form granting permission to use library resources through the district’s parent portal.
Colorado Republican Rep. Brandi Bradley recently announced her plans to lead a new Moms for Liberty chapter in Douglas County. Bradley was elected in 2022 to House District 39, which includes parts of Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, and other rural parts of the county and is currently running for reelection.
In another targeted attack against transgender people, the Colorado GOP, represented by Director of Special Initiatives Darcy Schoening, sent an email calling on the state’s school boards to resist enacting recent updates to Title IX that protect transgender students from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
Soon after Colorado’s election polling centers closed at 7:00 p.m., onlookers at Congressional candidate Gabe Evans’ primary election watch party erupted in cheers.
Caving to a coordinated effort by anti-trans groups and right-wing politicians — including current U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who is running for election in the district that includes Douglas County — to spread fear and misinformation about regulations that provide greater clarity around schools’ obligations under Title IX, the Douglas County School Board voted 4-3 this month to delay its planned discussion on an update to its nondiscrimination and sexual harassment policies.
A few weeks before the Colorado Republican Party called for the burning of Pride flags, the organization sent out a mass email falsely claiming that parents of students attending Grand Peak Academy Charter School in Colorado Springs were told “their third-grade girls would be continuously forced to use the restroom with a grown male teacher who calls himself ‘Ms. Sparks’ and tells kids they can be any gender they want.”
Colorado substitute teacher provider Tagg Education filed a legal challenge in Denver’s District Court earlier this month against a Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) policy that mandates substitute teachers must be members of PERA, regardless of whether they are employed by a school district or as an independent contractor of a third-party agency.
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) signed a bill into law earlier this month aimed at helping older Coloradans save money on rent through a refundable tax credit.
Right wing activist and self-proclaimed “America’s Mom” Sherronna Bishop and Kelly Kohls, director of school board leadership for Moms for America, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center deems an anti-government extremist organization, outlined their strategy to end the community-led effort to recall Garfield School District RE-2 board member Tony May during a secretly-recorded Zoom call obtained by the Colorado Times Recorder earlier this month.
