Monument Academy closed its 2025-26 books with a $288,000 surplus, and the number hides more than it shows. The charter’s elementary campus in Monument earned $1.0 million; its middle school lost $141,000; its high school, with 90 students, lost $579,000. The surplus also depends on a $531,000 credit from a bond refinancing and on federal […]
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D38’s Board Sets June Deadlines on Pay and Retention
Lewis-Palmer’s school board adopted seventeen dated goals for 2026-27, two of which give it until June 2027 to find continuing revenue for employee compensation and to lift staff retention to the average of surrounding districts. The board also raised secondary meal prices, admitted a farm to its homeschool program, and pulled a $38,500 school-security design off the consent agenda.
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Safety Does Not Set Teacher Pay in El Paso County
Lewis-Palmer D38 and Cheyenne Mountain report almost the same rate of school behavior incidents. Cheyenne Mountain pays its teachers $8,484 more. What separates them is not safety but the size of the override their voters approved.
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Four Million Dollars, Frozen
Lewis-Palmer D38’s voters approved a $4 million override in 1999 and have rejected every operating override since — seven of them. Inflation did the rest. In 2023 the district turned over 27.6% of its teachers, and the reason they gave most often was pay.
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Right-Sizing the Rolls: D38’s 2026-27 Budget Braces for a Smaller District
Lewis-Palmer School District 38 will hold a public hearing and vote on June 22 on a $53.3m general-fund budget that trims about 35 jobs to absorb a $1.7m fall in state funding. The cause is not scandal but arithmetic — fewer children, flat per-pupil dollars and a reserve that has halved in two years.