Hi Kid: Who Gets the Job?

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT…
Who Should Be Hired?

Is Poudre School District hiring the best teachers for our local students?

We imagine recruiting excellent candidates to Fort Collins would be relatively easy. Our area has so much to offer—a great place to raise a family, school choice, and all the sunshine. Given the struggling state of schools across the country, we assume PSD could easily attract and retain the best staff.

But what makes someone a fantastic teacher? Is it content expertise? Classroom management skills? Something else?

We wondered what the district looked for in candidates and found some clues. Those clues made us wonder if PSD’s hiring focus is on professional excellence or on the more controversial and polarizing diversity, equity, and inclusion political philosophy.

The first thing we found was a presentation to the PSD Board of Education delivered February of 2024. The presentation bluntly stated that PSD’s value—not priority, but value—is to incorporate DEI in everything that they do.