Woodland Park offers a preview of how quickly a new majority can move to reshape a district - and how those battles can ripple outward into the community. In Colorado, conservatives started making gains earlier because school board elections are held in off years. Someone in the meeting asked if taxpayers would get a say in these changes, and Witt said that they already did - when they elected the school board. “We are not the department of health and human services,” he said, as teachers angrily objected, according to two recordings of the meeting made by staff members and shared with NBC News. Teachers grew particularly alarmed early this year when word spread that Ken Witt, the new superintendent, did not plan to reapply for grants that covered the salaries of counselors and social workers.Īt Gateway Elementary School in March, Witt told staff members he prioritized academic achievement, not students’ emotions. Michael Ciaglo for NBC News Woodland Park school board meetings regularly attract capacity crowds. It’s a travesty.” Gateway Elementary School, one of five campuses in the Woodland Park School District. “I think they look at us as this petri dish where they can really push all their agenda and theories,” said Joe Dohrn, a Woodland Park father who described himself as a staunch Republican and “very capitalistic.” “They clearly are willing to sacrifice the public school and to put students presently in the public school through years of disarray to drive home their ideological beliefs.
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