Teachers union endorses four candidates in November’s Denver Board of Education election

The Denver teachers national has endorsed its last campaigner successful November’s schoolhouse committee race: Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán, who is moving to correspond southwest Denver.

Gaytán is simply a Denver Public Schools postgraduate and existent parent, and works arsenic a realtor. She antecedently ran for the schoolhouse committee successful 2017 but mislaid to Angela Cobián, who is not moving for reelection. Karolina Villagrana is her hostile this year.

In summation to Gaytán, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association endorsed Carrie Olson, the existent committee president who is seeking reelection successful central-east Denver; Michelle Quattlebaum, who is moving to correspond northeast Denver, and Scott Esserman, who is moving for a citywide at-large seat.

Fourteen candidates are moving for 4 seats connected the seven-member schoolhouse committee successful the Nov. 2 election. Denver schoolhouse committee races are often hotly contested, and run spending has skyrocketed successful caller years. The 2019 predetermination saw much than $2 cardinal successful spending with 9 candidates moving for 3 seats.

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