Putting people over party & politics

Core Commitment: Every policy should improve student learning, safety, and belonging.

• Keep classrooms focused on high quality instruction that meets Colorado Academic Standards.

• Use educator led committees to select curriculum and library materials. When materials are challenged, follow a lawful and transparent review process that includes families and relies on state standards and peer reviewed resources.

• Strengthen school climate and wellness. Expand counseling and social work, build provider partnerships, and reduce wait times for services.

• Keep schools safe and welcoming. Train staff, use effective threat assessment, maintain secure doors and visitor management, apply      restorative practices with clear codes of conduct, and protect privacy.

• Hold all public schools, including charters and alternative programs, to consistent expectations for transparency and outcomes while      honoring each mission.

Core Commitment: Recruit, support, and retain great people so students thrive. 

• Advocate for competitive compensation, mentoring, and manageable workloads. Where feasible, explore housing and childcare partnerships.

• Provide targeted professional learning that is tied to classroom practice and student growth, with simple measures of impact.

• Remove barriers that keep educators from teaching and support staff from serving students.

• Maintain safe working conditions with coordinated training and clear protocols.

Core Commitment: Put more dollars to work in classrooms and reduce long term liabilities. 

• Keep Board appropriations and statutory controls at the fund level. Distribute General Fund dollars to schools with a clear formula based on      enrollment, student needs, and performance growth. Include grade band weights, at risk, multilingual learner, and special education weights, plus small school and approved program supplements.

• Centralize restricted and shared services where it saves money and protects compliance, such as transportation, nutrition, facilities, risk      management, and districtwide software.

• Complete a January reconciliation after the October Count so schools are funded for the students they actually have.

• Set guardrails so site dollars fund instruction and student support, not capital or restricted purposes.

• Publish a public allocation worksheet for each school and a quarterly budget to actual dashboard that shows where the money goes and whether results are improving.

• Maintain safe, healthy, energy efficient buildings. Improve air quality and heat mitigation, invest in preventive maintenance, and pursue cost saving projects.

• Bring forward options for vacant or obsolete facilities. Use strategic sale, transfer, or public private partnerships in collaboration with host municipalities and regional economic partners so empty space does not drain classroom resources.

Core Commitment: Decisions should be made in the open, with clear ways for families to participate and see results. 

• Maintain early notice of meetings and ensure agenda packets are easy to find and posted with enough time for review. We will publish complete agenda packets at least seventy two hours before meetings, keep a published annual meeting schedule, and reserve emergency timing for true emergencies.

• Use plain language summaries for major items, with options, tradeoffs, and next steps.
• Hold regular open forums at each school that include underrepresented families and students, and publish what changed because      people participated.

• Create advisory groups that connect school priorities with civic and workforce goals, working with local municipalities and regional and state partners.

• Maintain a public dashboard that links participation, staffing, tutoring, extended learning time, and joint projects to growth and achievement.