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Citing unintended consequences, a majority of Denver school board members support moving forward a proposal to overturn parts of a controversial new policy.

To fill the District 5 vacancy, Denver school board members went through multiple rounds of voting that revealed frayed relationships.

Denver Public Schools Board of Education appointed Charmaine Lindsay to serve as the District 5 representative on Thursday night during its monthly meeting.

Manual High’s JROTC program will be transferred to a bigger Denver high school next year, a move alumni and the program’s beloved instructor say is wrong.

The new policy, known as an executive limitation, passed in a contentious 5-2 vote late Thursday after five hours of public testimony.

Denver directs more money to schools where students have higher needs. But per-student funding is increasingly coming under fire.

Denver school board considers executive limitations to boost teacher job protections, standardize school calendars, and roll back school autonomy.

A new state law allows school board members, who were previously volunteers, to be paid. Denver will pay $150 per day for up to five days per month.

Denver’s three new school board members were sworn in last Tuesday, and immediately grabbed the spotlight by assuming control of the board’s leadership.

The election of four union-backed candidates to the Denver school board was the second-most expensive in recent history.