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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Time for people to change their minds about Easley | DeFENSE

Time for people to change their minds about Easley | DeFENSE

Time for people to change their minds about Easley

as presented to the North City Park Community Association meeting on February 22

Dear Neighbors of the North City Park Community:

Many of you may have recently been reading in the Denver Post about the campaign to recall Nate Easley, Ph.D., current president of the Denver Public School Board. Unfortunately, the authors of these opinion pieces have presented their views without contacting community groups to verify their suppositions for the genesis of this initiative. I want to take a few minutes to inform you of the real issues that caused members of the community to take this course of action as it relates to Dr. Easley’s performance as the representative of the Greater Northeast District of Denver. Many of the community members involved with this action are former supporters of Dr. Easley and campaigned on his behalf in his election campaign.

  • Dr. Easley appears to have a conflict of interest with his additional position as Deputy Director of the Denver Scholarship Foundation while DPS Board member Theresa Pena serves on the governing board of