Jeb Bush donates to 4 Douglas County school board candidates
FILE - In this March 15, 2013 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the Ronald Reagan Dinner at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. Weighing in while hosting an education conference in Boston, the potential 2016 presidential candidate argued that congressional Republicans represent the mirror opposite of the successes of GOP governors outside the capital. (AP | Jacquelyn Martin)
Former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush has jumped into the Douglas County School Board race, donating to four conservative candidates and publicly backing the district's voucher efforts and market-based pay system.
"It is vital that these reforms continue as a national model, and now this model has become the next battlefield of reform," Bush wrote in a piece for National Review Online Friday.
Campaign finance reports, which were due by midnight Friday, offer voters a final look before Tuesday's election at the money coming into the state's high-dollar school board races in Denver and Douglas County.
Nine candidates vying for a place on the board of Denver Public Schools raised more than $150,000 in monetary and non-
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