Protesters carry huge puppets of the candidates at the University of Colorado, Boulder ahead of the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
More Jeffco school board election news, a republican debate here in Boulder and complaints about how a disciplinary issue was handled in Greeley. Check out these and other education news you might have missed on this week’s Take Note.
#Jeffco: Another look, just before Tuesday’s election, at the school board race in Jefferson County, and particularly at is growing, though not necessarily focusing on the root policy issues.
Speaking of national attention, the on the election’s politics this week. And Sandra Fish, the school board’s race will have on other school districts in and out of state.
Denver’s election: Eric Gorski, for Chalkbeat, wrote an in-depth story this week — a widely used dividing phrase between candidates in Denver, and especially in the district 5 race for northwest Denver.
GOP debate: that came up during the debate. Though they weren’t many, they included a call for increased vocational education and a question about student loan debt.
In Boulder, where the debate was held, Joey Bunch for the Denver Post wrote the school’s moment in the spotlight. Some students were upset that only 150 tickets to watch the event live were handed out to students.
Discipline: An led administrators in Greeley to search cellphones and interrogate students, Tyler Silvy for the Greeley Tribune reported this week. Parents are upset about how the school administrators handled the issue and some wonder if they may have violated laws in the process.
Electives: A few non-academic programs in Colorado schools made it into the news recently, including , just northeast of Colorado Springs.
at Metropolitan State University of Denver last weekend and Denver Post’s Elizabeth Hernandez was there. A participating high school student from a Denver charter school is quoted talking about how much time her team spent working on their robot in the six weeks leading to the competition. Wow.
Zaid Hernandez, left, practices fencing with Cole Gudding, both 16, during a meeting of the fencing club in a hallway at Gateway High School on October 22. (Anya Semenoff, The Denver Post)
And YourHub’s Megan Mitchell , which the founder (a teacher) believes may be the only school fencing club in the state. The program, though, is running low on funds and gear for students.
Student elections: Also, don’t miss this story about school that has stirred a lot of discussion. When the results were tallied and the principal realized the winners , she withheld the results asking students to talk about how to have a more representative government.
