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.
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“Say it again!” I yelled, staring Billy T. down. Though there was a hot, prickly itching behind my eyes, they stayed dry. He chanted in a taunting schoolyard singsong.
“N ger, N ger, N ggger.”
I was 11 years old in Boulder, Colorado, the only Black kid in the schoolyard. All the kids gathered around to watch me cry. Again.
As a little girl, I didn’t know I was Black. Not until I was 9 or 10 did I understand how my color set me apart.
I was adopted at the age of 8 by a white woman and a Black man. I had been moved around between foster homes and a previous adoption, and though my current family had some issues, my brand-new baby brother and sister were beautiful. I’d landed all right.
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Daybreak, her husband, Tyler Tysdal, is in the midst of a serious legal battle. On Thursday, February 18, he s scheduled for two appearances in Denver District Court involving a combined seventy counts connected to alleged financial malfeasance. Among the reported victims is a former National Football League all-pro quarterback.
The first of the hearings is a status conference related to a December 2019 grand jury indictment. Carolyn Tyler, spokesperson for the Denver District Attorney s Office, spells out the specifics, using abbreviations for the classifications of several felonies: Mr. Tysdal is charged with 67 counts. . The highest charge is violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (F2). He is also charged with multiple counts of securities fraud (F3), conspiracy to commit securities fraud (F4) and one count of theft (F2).