Students in Jefferson County plan to continue their ongoing protests at a rally Saturday following a week of relative silence.
Jeffco Students for Change, a conglomerate of student leaders from all of the county’s high schools, said in a news release earlier this week they plan to host a rally to “raise awareness and to make a statement.”
“The students of Jeffco are not satisfied with this so-called ‘compromise,’ and believe in the respect and consideration afforded by a true democratic process,” the group said in the release. The students said while they recognize that Superintendent Dan McMinimee submitted a compromise to the original curriculum review committee proposal at the center of the roughly month-long movement, since majority board members will still select members of the committee, it remains an “unbalanced display of power.”
The rally will be held from .
The county’s school board last week that would reorganize existing curriculum review groups in the district to involve more student, teacher and community voices.
Students from nearly all of the county’s high schools over the committee — and potential changes to the content of the Advanced Placement U.S. history class — proposed by board member Julie Williams.
Teachers say they hope national attention brought to the county by student protests .
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Staff writer John Aguilar contributed to this story.
