Melanie Knapp, an Academy School District 20 parent and former teacher who contended that closed-door meetings the Board of Education held in 2019 during its search for a new superintendent violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law, will receive some of the information she sought to have made public.
The board must disclose the recordings and transcripts of private executive sessions that occurred after the initial 26 candidates were reduced to five finalists, El Paso County District Court Judge Thomas Kane ruled this week.
However, the board does not have to release materials from previous executive sessions when board members narrowed the field of candidates, he determined.
Miller Hudson
An ancient Chinese proverb theorizes an opportunity embedded in every political crisis. Winston Churchill recast it as: âNever let a crisis go to waste.â Rahm Emanuel then recycled Churchillâs sentiment in response to the Great Recession of 2009 when serving as chief of staff to Barack Obama. A corollary that may have similar origins is, âWhen a locked door opens unexpectedly, step through before it shuts.â
Brian Boatright, chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, has invited the legislative and executive branches to undertake a joint investigation of disgraceful behavior reported within the judiciary departmentâs disciplinary process and deliberately hidden before David Migoya of The Denver Post exposed the pattern to public view.
In the first two months of the stateâs effort to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, data tracking the progress has shown Black and Hispanic Coloradans lagging behind white Coloradans, and newly released, more granular information confirm the trend, but also reveal that the wealthiest parts of the state are outpacing the poorest areas by about 30%.
A Gazette analysis of ZIP code-level vaccination data, provided by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in response to Colorado Open Records Act requests illustrates again how the health care system favors the already better off.
In areas of the state with a median household income above $80,000 â the wealthiest quarter of the stateâs ZIP codes â more than 20% of residents have received a first or second dose of the coronavirus vaccination. But in areas where median incomes are below $40,500 â the bottom quarter of the stateâs ZIP codes â less than 15% have been immunized with either a
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