

Voces Unidas: RFSD earns a D- on new community report card
Among the many lessons public education offers are those that come not from textbooks, but from sharing the classroom with peers from every walk of life. One lesson, often learned slowly, is that we all live our own reality. Despite appearances, not everyone’s circumstances are the same. Sharing the same hallways, classrooms and cafeterias with the same students day after day, year after year, it’s easy to assume everyone’s experience is similar. We’re all “Rams,” or “Demons”
Alex Sánchez
3 days ago3 min read


When the system fails, don’t blame the families
Every so often, someone says the quiet part out loud. Recently, in response to our public actions in the Roaring Fork School District, I...
Alex Sánchez
Jun 133 min read


Senate Bill 276 seeks to close Colorado’s anti-immigrant urban-rural divide
We hear a lot these days about Colorado’s urban-rural divide — the disconnect between the needs and values of Front Range cities and...
Alex Sánchez
Apr 293 min read


Authoritarian approach to immigration the wrong answer
Sometime in the next few days, Donald Trump will sign the first bill of his second term as U.S. president into law. That bill, the Laken...
Alex Sánchez
Jan 254 min read


Project 2025 attempts to take America back to the dark ages of discrimination
Had American nativists ever endeavored to draft a “Declaration of Discrimination,” it would read a lot like the radical modern plan known...
Alex Sánchez
Aug 17, 20244 min read


‘Non-sanctuary’ resolutions are a crisis of their own making
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever...
Alex Sánchez
Apr 26, 20244 min read


Amplifying Latino voices in the legislative process
Luz Rios is a local leader. And she’s the consummate community advocate. Community can mean different things to different people. For...
Alex Sánchez
Mar 28, 20243 min read


What interests does a broken immigration system serve?
We’ve been hearing a lot about immigration policy in the news lately. Or at least about the immigration “crisis,” anyway. Any discussion...
Voces Unidas de las Montañas
Feb 21, 20245 min read


Our students deserve the most qualified leader
With the second half of the academic calendar now underway, we eagerly await seeing how the new Roaring Fork School District board will...
Alex Sánchez
Feb 1, 20243 min read












