Opinion

• The culture of fear
  Editor's note: This is cross-posted from the "Failing Schools" blog. One of the hardest things about this project, and about offering any kind of counter-narrative to the “Public schools suck/Teachers are terrible/If only we could [insert gimmick here] our problems would be solved!” party line, is dealing with the culture of fear that exists i […]
  Sabrina Stevens Shupe
• From the publisher: A basic lesson, relearned
  Denver school board member Andrea Merida has been caught up in a maelstrom since Friday, when The Denver Post broke a story that she has been paid $5,000 since May by Andrew Romanoff’s U.S. Senate campaign. Merida, in her position as a board member, has been an aggressive critic of a pension refinance deal orchestrated by current Superintendent Tom Boasberg […]
  Alan Gottlieb
• Newsflash: Merida resigning from Romanoff campaign
  Denver school board member Andrea Merida is resigning from her consultant position with Andrew Romanoff's campaign for U.S. Senate. She said she will remain as a volunteer "at least for now." Her decision comes in the wake of news last Friday that she has been on Romanoff's payroll since May. She did not disclose that fact to the board, D […]
  Alan Gottlieb
• Transparency, ethics, duty: A board member’s view
  Editor's note: Mary Seawell is an at-large member of the Denver Board of Education. In the wake of the Denver Post article exposing Andrea Merida for being paid by Andrew Romanoff while she actively criticized U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet from her position on the school board, I have struggled to understand the current state of the DPS Board of Education. I […]
  Mary Seawell