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Koch Brothers Enter the Douglas County Race
NPE-endorsed Candidate Faces AFP-Backed Tea Party Candidate
NPE-endorsed candidate Ronda Scholting now faces an opponent in the Douglas County School Board race who is supported by the Koch brothers.
This week, it was announced that the Koch brothers have become involved in the School Board race in Douglas County, Colorado. The Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP), which is run by the Koch brothers, is the largest free-market organization in Colorado. AFP so far has spent $50,000 on an ad campaign featuring Denise Denny, a prominent figure in Douglas County’s local Tea Party.
In recent years, the School Board in Douglas County has promoted and initiated corporate reform policies. The district’s controversial voucher program has been pushed into legislation with the help of ALEC. And AFP is working hard – and spending thousands – to promote the idea that these corporate reforms have led to positive results and must be continued.
In truth, many parents and public school advocates in Douglas County view the reforms of the School Board as harmful. The policies initiated by the School Board have had teachers’ unions and school communities up in arms. Earlier this year, Diane Ravitch published a piece by a teacher in Douglas County who described the dire situation and affirmed that members of Douglas County are “in a fight for our public school life […] school board elections in November will determine the future of our public schools.”
Earlier this month, we announced our strong endorsement for Ronda Scholting in the Douglas County race. She is a candidate who will fight to protect public schools from harmful corporate reform policies. We encourage you to raise your voice and spread the word about Scholting’s candidacy. We also invite you to join NPE’s Anthony Cody in Douglas County on September 12th, where he will discuss the state of education reform and the importance of the school board election.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Love the headline in the original article from the Colorado Observer touting AFP as a non-partisan group. I would have made a comment on their page, but the Colorado Observer is in the habit of not publishing comments that are contrary to their Teabagger ideology.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/24/3133568/nc-lawmakers-to-learn-about-colorado.html
In their spare time, NC legislatures made a visit to Douglas County.
Correction, it was the legislators employees who made the trip, not our busy legislators.
How about a grazing buffalo charter school for the less hypercompetitive comtemplative children?
Please support Ronda at http://www.rondafordougcoschools.com/
Great article! If the district would spend as much time and money (donated from sources outside the district) on our children as they do trying to promote their political agenda, our children would have the “world class education” they keep touting.
Horrors are going on…in the name of educating kids!
If the tea Party is associated with a candidate, they just lost my vote…not that they ever had it in the first place vs. Rhonda