Around the country yesterday, ballot-watchers were focused on hard-fought campaigns for governor, legal pot, the fate of anti-discrimination laws. The big Election Day news here in Colorado? Believe it or not, it was about a local school board.
The vote over whether to recall three conservative members of the Jefferson County board of education, wrote The Denver Post, involved death threats, outside money, and “allegations of bullying and fake social media accounts.” Amid the ongoing controversy over education reform, it even became national news. Continue…
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