Mark Baisley

Fresh off an ugly campaign, the brand-new Douglas County School Board unanimously gave conditional approval to a proposed charter school, STEM High, Tuesday night.
The vote had garnered attention because of the cozy relationship between the charter school’s board chair Mark Baisley and three newly elected, and one re-elected, board members . The four comprise a [...]

The Douglas County Board of Education election, it seems, still isn’t over. Early this week, Douglas County informed the Douglas County School District that it would not be able to certify the election in time to swear in the new slate of charter school-friendly, Republican-backed, “reform” candidates for the next board meeting.