Colorado Board of Education Commissioner Steve Durham, Academy School District 20 Board member Aaron Salt, and Colorado Springs School District 11 Board member Lauren Nelson spoke at Engage the Rockies’ “State of Education” event at Library 21c in Colorado Springs this week.
A Republican vacancy committee has appointed Stephen Varela to replace Joyce Rankin on the Colorado Board of Education, according to a spokesperson from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.
In a transphobic fundraising email to supporters, Heidi Ganahl, the Republican frontrunner in this year’s race for Colorado governor, falsely claims that an Adams County school district instituted policies, allowing high school students to stipulate their gender at school, “without being voted on or put on the agenda for public notice and comment.”
