After weeks of no communication from the Jeffco schools Board of Education relating to the sudden firing of Chief of Schools David Weiss, the BoE finally decided to hold a meeting to discuss steps going forward on January 7th. While Director Reed wanted to label this meeting as “transparency”, the facts tell a different story.
This meeting was:
- Held with very little notice
- Inconveniently held in the middle of a work day. It was scheduled so inconveniently that one of the Board members could not attend
- Held as a “retreat” in a location outside of the Board room which relieved the district of its normal practice of recording Board meetings
- Video was initially withheld when requested via CORA (CORA Request PR-2425-223) with staff lying in the CORA response stating there was no video available
- Video still not being published by the district even after it was revealed they had recorded the meeting
No, the Jeffco Board, and district, did everything in their power to hold this meeting as quietly and under the radar as possible. Nonetheless, thanks to CORA, and sources inside the meeting room that captured the district’s recording of the meeting, here is the complete video: