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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 14h

Weld RE-8 saved $2.56M refinancing debt, but bond money can't fund raises. That's Issue 5C's job, on the Nov. 3 ballot. www.ftluptonpress.com/news/weld-re-…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Prosecutors lay out their case Tuesday against Patrick Barnett, charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Jeffco art teacher Lindsey Barnett. The judge ordered it livestreamed. www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Education Department opened a Title IX probe into Jeffco's handling of staff sexual harassment reports, citing four arrests it didn't name. Anyone else covering its "Pass the Trash" push? www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Adams 12's board voted 4-1 to close six schools next year. The district has lost 7,400 students in eight years, Supt. Chris Gdowski said, and he expects more closures, but not for at least three years. www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Colorado expects a $1.6 billion budget gap next year. Readers can now vote on Amendment 87, Prop 136 and Prop NN in a simulation, then balance the budget with what's left. Built by COLab, CU Denver and Weigh In. Curious whether other newsrooms are trying tools like this.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Colorado's state board votes Oct. 14 on keeping i-Ready as a K-3 dyslexia screener. It failed review, then cleared on appeal. Covering this elsewhere? www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Adams 12 votes Oct. 7 on closing six schools. Near five of them, families who left chose, on average, schools with fewer low-income students. www.northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A former student sued Lakewood's Addenbrooke Classical Academy Wednesday over racial harassment he says administrators ignored. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/ex…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A state panel recommends an outside organization run part of Fort Lupton High, in its fifth year of low state ratings. State Board decides next spring. www.ftluptonpress.com/news/state-pa…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Edgewater's Jefferson High, which Jeffco proposed repurposing in 2025, is off the state's accountability clock in preliminary ratings. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/of…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Title I high school went from nine free college courses to two. Nobody voted to cancel them. The credentialed teachers left. Part 2: www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/ti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More Westminster High grads now go to career programs than four-year colleges, so the school swapped three IB courses for free college classes. Out of state, the district says, they "may or may not transfer." www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A note for anyone covering school closures: Adams 12 says Centennial Elementary is too small to keep full-time specials, under its 300-student line. The records I requested say the neighborhood isn't.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

First real test of Westminster's bell-to-bell phone policy: a swatting call Sept. 1. A board member couldn't reach her son and says that was the point. My story in the Westminster Window: www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The one line about Teachers Unify in Jeffco's post-shooting agreement: "The District will meet with the Teachers Unify Crisis Intervention & Support Team to determine ways in which their services may be recommended." A 90-minute Zoom was the meeting. Happy to share the MOU. DM me.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jeffco beats the state on nearly every test. Its 3,700 students still learning English rank in the bottom quarter of Colorado against their peers. New from me at the Golden Transcript. 🧵

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Colorado stopped counting which students get free college credit. Jeffco never started. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/th…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One year after the Evergreen High School shooting, the help for its teachers came from three educators who survived Columbine, Sandy Hook and a Nevada middle school. The teachers union planned the dinner. District administration wasn't invited. Story link at the end of this thread.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Three of the six schools Adams 12 wants to close are Title I. Free-and-reduced-lunch runs from 74% to nearly 94%. www.northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jeffco votes Thursday on selling closed Wilmore Davis Elementary to Wheat Ridge for $2.84M, its top per-acre price for a closed school. Two acres become the neighborhood's first park. www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Adams 12 named six schools to close Thursday. A process note for anyone covering closures: the working group included no parents, no teachers, no current principals. By design.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jeffco has five tax questions on the November ballot. Two property, three state. I built a calculator that adds them together, because a household budget doesn't separate them.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Question for anyone covering schools: does your district grade itself on attendance by a stricter bar than the state uses? 27J's board counts students missing 30% of the year and calls it "the federal definition." The feds and Colorado say 10%.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The numbers under the Moore story: county values the land at $5.6M (tax valuation, not appraisal). Jeffco's last Westminster sale: appraised $3.43M if rezoned, agreed at up to $1.8M. Anyone covering school-district land sales elsewhere seeing similar gaps? Happy to compare notes.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New: Westminster says it wants to buy a closed Jeffco middle school for a possible fire station, 16 months after a resident asked the city to buy the last one and got 40 houses instead. No price named. www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

27J's school board heard last week that severe absenteeism had been cut in half. The next morning the state said nearly 1 in 3 27J students were chronically absent, up from the year before. Both numbers are true. A thread on why.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rob Stein was in Manual High's first bused class in 1975. You could tell, he said, which books came with the white kids. Now he runs Jeffco: www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jeffco's interim superintendent on his own pitch: "Hey, I'm Rob. Trust me, give us your money." He knows it doesn't work. My profile: www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jeffco valued concurrent enrollment at $7.7M in tuition families didn't pay in 2023-24. It's an estimate: the district counts completed courses and multiplies by three. What it doesn't say is which schools' families got the savings. Part 4 of The Opportunity Tax, Monday.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Adams 12 isn't alone. Boulder Valley and Poudre are expected to follow with closure recs, Gdowski said. Covering this? DM me. www.northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jeffco's 2018 ballot promised a citizens' committee would watch the money. The review stopped. The new plan's committee meets twice a year. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

He took a free college course at his Title I high school and finished a semester early. Some years, the school can't offer it at all. Part 3: www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Adams 12 will name schools for closure Sept. 3 and vote Oct. 7. The criteria: empty classrooms and higher per-student costs. www.northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Westminster's ballot language opens "WITHOUT IMPOSING A NEW TAX." Also true: bills rise about $52 on a typical home. I unpacked how a mill levy override cap works. Anyone covering similar measures? www.westminsterwindow.com/news/arti…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AI software now scans 27J high school cameras for visible guns. The $179K contract never went to a board vote. www.thebrightonblade.com/news/new-a…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tonight the Jeffco board certifies ballot language its CFO says the books can't fully track. The first hearing drew one speaker. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/wh…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Colorado State Board is hearing the dyslexia/READ Act rules today. Watching where they land on which screeners qualify and how families get notified. If you're following this too, say hi — happy to compare notes.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Jeffco wants $73M/yr for raises. Its CFO says the books can't trace it once spent. Denver fixed this in 2005 with a separate fund. Jeffco isn't. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/wh…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Two Lakewood schools open Wednesday without their art teacher. Lindsey Barnett was found dead Aug. 13. Her husband is jailed; no charges filed. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A hypothesis update from 10 months on one investigation. I went in expecting to find gatekeepers, adults deciding which students were college material. I went looking for gatekeepers and found vacancies.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Something I keep running into covering Colorado school funding: the big projections pitched to parents at community events are almost always supporter-generated, and almost always run past where any official forecast stops.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A detail from Part 1 I keep coming back to. An Arvada High student told her school board in February that her school had six concurrent enrollment credits. The next student said Chatfield had 166. A third said Dakota Ridge had 64. The presentation moved on.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A former Jeffco paraprofessional is charged with felony assault of an at-risk student, accused of dragging a child with an IEP across the ground. www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/je…

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Jeffco ran through nearly 2,000 hot dogs by early afternoon at Saturday's Back to School Bash. 3,000+ people, dozens of tents, a two-story inflatable dartboard. Three of those tents were about ballot measures to raise money for schools. I spent the afternoon at the money tables. 🧵

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Jeffco told its school board it saved families $8.5 million in college tuition last year. It has never said which schools got it. So I spent 10 months and $1,551 in records fees building the school-by-school number myself.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jeffco's suit against the Education Department is a process case, not a sports case. The district says OCR found a Title IX violation without ever interviewing anyone. 🧵

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jeffco says its students saved $8.5 million in college tuition. It has never broken that number out by school. So I did. Within a seven-school comparison, about 91% of the traceable savings went to the wealthier schools. Four-part series starts next week. 🧵 soon.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

CDE has to rule on the Northglenn homeschool enrichment program today. Two things nobody has answered: whether approval resolves the 2025-26 religious instruction questions, and what happens to 42 programs if ERBOCES loses its second member Aug. 15.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

47 homeschool enrichment applications filed statewide. 42 came through one BOCES. CDE returned all 42 asking who's in the building. That's not a one-program story anymore. That's an oversight design question.

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Suzie Glassman @suziereports.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The timeline on this one is tight enough to be worth stating plainly: July 1, 2025 — Colorado's ban on public funding for religious instruction takes effect. July 8, 2025 — Program's site labels Chemistry, British Lit, World History "Faith based content." CDE rules Thursday.

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