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Tag: Evan Young
Investigator: Twin Peaks Academy entitled to “editorial control” over graduation speech
Twin Peaks Charter Academy didn't violate valedictorian Evan Young's legal rights when Principal BJ Buchmann barred the student's graduation speech, an outside investigation found.
At the...
Polis pushes federal protections for LGBT students, Gardner votes against them
Boulder Rep. Jared Polis led the drafting and circulation of a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to do everything in its power...
Principal of discrimination-charged charter school leaves for similarly-charged district
The Longmont Times-Call reported today that BJ Buchmann, the Twin Peaks Charter principal who refused to allow valedictorian Evan Young to give a graduation...
Homebrew: GoFundMe pulls Twin Peaks’ funding campaign
Fund times
GoFundMe, the crowdsourcing website, has put Twin Peaks Charter Academy’s fundraising campaign under review. The school’s principal had set up the fundraising page...
Sexual-orientation discrimination may cost Twin Peaks’ school charter
Twin Peaks Charter Academy blocked senior and valedictorian Evan Young from giving his graduation speech because he refused to remove his gay identity from the script....
Homebrew: Veterans blast Congress for withholding VA hospital funding
Finish already
“Finish the damn thing,” read a veteran’s sign at a Sunday protest with 150 demonstrators demanding Congress fund the over-budget Aurora Veteran’s Hospital....