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🚫 Native American group sues state over school mascot ban
Earlier this year, Colorado lawmakers enacted a ban on Native American school mascots. Schools that don’t comply with the law face a $25,000 fine every month until a change is made. Now, however, a Native American group is challenging the ban in court on the premise that it doesn’t solely eliminate the use of offensive terminology but also removes positive and honorific uses, infringing on their constitutional rights. [CO Sun]
🕊️ Colorado honors its fallen military members
Just ahead of Veteran’s Day, Colorado officials formally dedicated the Colorado Fallen Heroes Memorial at Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park in Denver over the weekend. The monument, which was 14 years in the making, honors the last century of Colorado military men and women that have fought and died for the U.S. overseas. Active and retired service members and their families attended the ceremony. [CPR]
👉 What you can do: Visit the memorial and read the stories of the service members it honors.
🏫 Denver school board is now fully union-backed
Last week, city voters ushered four new union-backed members onto the Denver school board, officially making all seven members of the board candidates supported by the teachers union. It should be noted that while the union represents teachers at many DPS schools, it does not represent teachers at Denver’s 58 charter schools. “It’s very difficult to tell what it means,” Parker Baxter, with the Center for Education Policy Analysis at CU Denver, told Chalkbeat. “I think the rubber meets the road when actual decisions will need to be made.” [Chalkbeat]
👉 What you can do: Learn more about each of the new board members.
🏠 Stackable container homes no longer coming to Colfax
Plans to build a seven-story complex of shipping container homes stacked on top of each other have fallen apart. The builders, a company called Stackhouse, asked for an extension on closing for the purchase of land on West Colfax, but the property’s owner declined. A container house and a slot in the building would have sold between $310,000 and $480,000. More than 2,000 Denverites had expressed interest in getting on the waitlist, and builders had already received 12 deposits. [Business Den]
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