“I have run a business where we had to work within the lines,” said conservative Academy School District 20 Board of Education candidate Amy Shandy during an Oct. 4 candidate forum. “We didn’t get to ask the taxpayer for more money. We had to figure it out. Every single budget has room to be better, and we can do that.”
CAÑON CITY – A rigidly formatted forum offered a glimpse Wednesday evening of the six candidates running for the Cañon City School Board, but little depth into the issues they say they want to tackle.
As candidates and voters mingled at the start of last Thursday’s School Board Candidate Meet & Greet in Loveland at Citipointe Church, conversations were interrupted as every cell phone in the room beeped simultaneously: the Colorado Bureau of Investigation had issued a ‘Blue Alert.’ These go out to media — and cell phones — when “a peace officer has been killed or received a life-threatening injury and the suspect(s) have fled,” says CBI, much like the better-known ‘Amber Alerts’ for missing children.
During a Sept. 16 town hall event, Colorado Springs School District 11 Board Vice President Jason Jorgenson touted the district’s academic improvement.
Conservative members of Colorado Springs School District 11’s Board of Education, President Parth Melpakam and Vice President Jason Jorgenson, have participated in town hall events hosted by conservative activists and groups in advance of the Nov. 7 election.
Gunnison County, Colorado, Republicans will auction off a rifle tomorrow at a meet-and-greet for the Republican-backed Gunnison Watershed School District Board candidates in November’s election.
Traditionally, campaigns for city councils and school boards in Colorado have adhered to their non-partisan designations, whereby candidates generally reflected the sensibilities of their district, and their elections were determined by nuanced differences in policy positions which didn’t necessarily correlate to the party affiliations of the candidate.
A conservative slate of candidates, comprised of registered Republicans Becky Myers for district D, Mike Peterson for district B, Christy Williams for district E, and Kaylee Winegar for district G running for the nonpartisan Douglas County School Board has partisan support from the Colorado Republican Party and extremist groups.
