AURORA | The Cherry Creek school board on Wednesday appointed Princeton University graduate and local parent Keith Frazier to a school board seat made vacant in April after the previous director resigned amid a scandal over “racialized” remarks.
After a special meeting Wednesday evening, school board members appointed Frazier, who was one of five final candidates for the empty post.
Former school board member Terry Bates was forced to resign in April after being accused of making “racialized” remarks in public.
Neither he nor school officials would detail his comments, but the Denver Post, after filing an open records request, revealed that Bates had on three occasions asked people if they came to the United States by using a “coyote.” The term refers to people who illegally smuggle immigrants into the United States…