“This is about making the board accessible for ALL individuals not those that can afford it.” “I will not be compensated at ALL, unless I was re-elected in 2023,” he wrote Tuesday. DPS Board Director Tay Anderson, who proposed the resolution, had been a vocal proponent of Woodrow’s bill at the Capitol.Īfter some discussion among members, the Denver school board declined to schedule a vote, preferring to first work out the details of how compensation would work and reach out to school boards elsewhere in the country that had already implemented pay.Īnderson took pains to note on Twitter that the resolution being considered by the Denver school board would not affect current board members’ compensation, as required by the new law. On Monday, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education became Colorado’s first elected body governing a large school district to discuss granting pay to school board members as permitted under HB-1055, which Polis, a Democrat, signed into law in May. “I just wanted to make sure that the state (wasn’t) making that call for them.” Denver, Aurora school boards first to look into compensation “The board should be the one to make that decision,” he said. Woodrow told Newsline he didn’t necessarily feel that every school board should compensate its members - just that it should be up to the individual boards to decide. The Colorado Association of School Boards took a neutral position on the final version of the bill. An amendment limiting board member pay to $150 per day was added to the bill at Gov.
HB-1055 ultimately prevailed along party lines, without a single Republican vote of support in the House or Senate.
Steven Woodrow represents Colorado House District 6. The group called the bill “poorly thought out legislation” that “does not bode well for the state of education policy in Colorado.” Democratic Rep. “At a time when education budgets are under pressure and schools are clamoring for more money, why in the world would we divert taxpayer dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of elected politicians?” Ready Colorado asked in a March blog post. The effort was met with strong opposition, including from Ready Colorado, a conservative advocacy organization focused on education policy. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood and Faith Winter of Westminster teamed up with Woodrow on HB-1055. He found that school board member pay was one of several areas where “the state in a very paternalistic manner has said to local governments and municipalities, ‘You’re not allowed.'”ĭemocratic Sens. By contrast, county commissioners and many city council members in Colorado can get paid for their work.īefore bringing the proposal forward, Woodrow had been looking into state laws that preempted local governments from passing their own policies. Steven Woodrow, the Denver Democrat who sponsored House Bill 21-1055. The lack of compensation “was a barrier to entry to people who want to get involved and want to have a voice,” said state Rep.
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