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State super PACs funded by dark money spent millions trying to help more moderate candidates beat their more liberal challengers in Colorado’s Democratic statehouse primaries but were mostly coming up short Tuesday

State super PACs funded by dark money spent millions trying to help more moderate candidates beat their more liberal challengers in Colorado’s Democratic statehouse primaries but were mostly coming up short Tuesday.

On the GOP side, more mainstream Republicans were having a big night against legislative candidates who are further to the right.
In all, three, perhaps four, incumbents were set to lose their races. 

Here the results in the top legislative primaries this year. 

Hudson Town Council has had many people joining by Zoom from the surrounding northern Colorado communities to urge them to stop ICE from opening a new detention center concentration camp.

Instead of taking action to protect their community, the Hudson Town Council is going to vote tonight to eliminate public comments from Zoom.

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I'm a senior education reporter covering Jeffco Public Schools and Colorado education policy for the Colorado Trust for Local News. I've been following the federal Title IX investigation of Jeffco since March, and today I published a story based on the government's own 31-page Letter of Findings, which I obtained through a public records request.

Here's what it shows.

When OCR asked Jeffco for evidence that male students were competing on girls' sports teams, the district handed over athletic rosters and told investigators up front that the data reflected "the gender provided by students and/or their families" — self-reported gender identity, not biological sex. OCR acknowledged that in the same document. Then used the count anyway to conclude that Jeffco violated Title IX and to justify threatening to withhold roughly $98 million in federal education funding.

There's a second problem in the document. OCR built part of its case on a CHSAA policy it described as an "orphan page" it couldn't locate in the association's current bylaws. CHSAA's own communications director confirmed to me that the eligibility review process described in that policy has not been applied since it was adopted in 2008, primarily due to privacy laws.

The enforcement threat is escalating. The Department of Education issued a Letter of Impending Enforcement Action on June 26, and Jeffco's board voted 4-1 to prepare for a legal fight.

But nationally, not one district or state has lost federal funding in a transgender Title IX case since the Trump administration began this enforcement campaign in early 2025.

This has implications beyond Jeffco. Jeffco told OCR its practices are identical to those of school districts and public postsecondary institutions across Colorado. The underlying conflict between the federal government's interpretation of Title IX and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act is already being litigated in a separate federal case, District 49 v. Sullivan, which continues against Attorney General Phil Weiser and the Colorado Civil Rights Division.

Full story: https://www.thegoldentranscript.com/news/the-data-flaw-inside-jeffcos-federal-title-ix-findings/article_8bf14fb2-717d-4ee1-b26d-cc369895738f.html

If you want to follow this story as it develops, I write a free weekly newsletter called Class Notes covering Jeffco and Colorado education every Friday: https://cotlns-newsletter-education.beehiiv.com/

Questions welcome in the comments.

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