Sarah Jane Kyle (The Coloradoan)- Poudre School District’s governing board met nearly 150 miles away from district headquarters Friday evening to talk about how its members should work together.
The meeting was scheduled after the close of PSD’s closest bond election in district history. The bond passed with 50.04 percent of 110,444 votes Thursday in recount results, though pending litigation stalled its implementation Friday.
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Editorial Board (Greeley Tribune)- We have a hard time placing a lot of blame on area schools and school districts for their potential violations of Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act.
Ultimately the districts are responsible for their actions so, yes, some of the blame does land at the feet of those districts. That said, it appears they did every reasonable thing within their power to avoid such a misstep and when they found out a mistake had been made, then moved quickly to rectify it.
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Tyler Silvy (Greeley Tribune)- A lack of balance in communication about multi-million dollar ballot initiatives has put many northern Colorado school districts in apparent violation of Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act.
The act, among other things, requires government entities to include arguments for and against proposals if those entities have used taxpayer dollars to create communications about the proposals.
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Greeley Tribune Editorial Board (Greeley Tribune)- There’s a 2-year-old state law that requires Colorado school districts to post meeting minutes within 10 days of the minutes being approved.
Colorado Ethics Watch, a left-leaning research and advocacy nonprofit, has done some research to see how Colorado’s schools are doing with the relatively new mandate. The results weren’t great for the state with less than 60 percent of the districts in compliance.
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Click here to read the full report by Colorado Ethics Watch.
