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Earthquake rattles far northeast Denver
Posted by Alan Gottlieb Sep 28th, 2010. After many months of careful process, a community group from Denver’s far northeast neighborhoods is poised to recommend that Denver Public Schools make revolutionary changes to their lowest-performing schools. The Far Northeast Community Committee got a look last night at how DPS would like that revolution to unfold. Schools will be “turned around,” with new […]
Charging developers for new schools would hurt home buyers
By Scott Smith | Guest Commentary January 21, 2017 at 5:02 pm The Douglas County School District recently adopted a resolution in favor of legislation to allow school districts to assess residential impact fees. Although charging new home buyers directly for the costs of providing capital facilities for the public school system sounds tempting, there are several significant public […]
Developers should pay for the new schools their communities will need
By Scott Smith | Guest Commentary | January 21, 2017 at 5:02 pm Douglas County is a vast, beautiful, and rapidly growing county in the south metropolitan Denver area. Just like the rest of this wonderful state, it is a popular destination for new transplants. With the county’s population already exceeding 300,000, many experts expect the population will fully double […]