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How can Roaring Fork schools make best use of $4 million? That question drove discussion among school board members Wednesday after the Roaring Fork School District received its third round of Esser federal funds (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Funds). The district is currently planning how to spend the surplus in a way that is best for the district, Chief Financial Officer Nathan Markham explained at the board meeting Wednesday night the parameters set in place for how the funds can be spent. “We have to spend the money in a, quote, ‘reasonable and necessary manner’ a...

A job or a civic duty? Colorado weighs paying school board members A proposal working its way through the Colorado General Assembly would allow school board members to be compensated for their service for the first time. Author: Erica Meltzer (Chalkbeat Colorado) Published: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021 Updated: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021 DENVER — More than 60% of students in the Roaring Fork School District are Hispanic, but when Jasmin Ramirez was elected in 2019, she and fellow board member Natalie Torres became the first Latinas to serve on the...

Intro:Jasmin Ramirez Ramos is a Roaring Fork School District board member and a co-founder of Voces Unidas, a Latino Advocacy group representing Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield counties.

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Lack of Spanish resources causes real harm within Roaring Fork Valley. Beatriz Soto, Defiende Nuestra Tierra Director at non-profit Wilderness Workshop, said she is frequently asked to clarify if videos or clips are legitimate news sources by members of the community. “I think we have to acknowledge that for whatever reason, fake information and fake news is getting quicker to our communities than real information…I think once people start losing that faith in their governmental agencies I think it just makes them victims,” Soto said. Officials within the...

“It's important to have diversity throughout all of these roles across the valley, whether it's at a nonprofit or a government function, because the value is that you're going to have diversity in response,” said Ramirez with Voces Unidas de las Montañas — “United Voices of the Mountains.”  The group formed in May 2020 to address what it saw was a lack of support for Latinos in Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties. They began by sharing information about COVID-19 in the pandemic’s early stages, though the focus soon grew to include wildfires. On Aug. 10, 2020, after a dry and war...