A Boulder County District Court judge on Wednesday ruled against the temporary injunction requested by parents who filed a lawsuit over the Boulder Valley School District’s school closure plan, allowing the plan to proceed while the case is argued in court.
The lawsuit, filed Sept. 30, follows the Boulder Valley school board’s 5-2, Sept. 22 vote to close Boulder’s Douglass, Flatirons and Mesa elementary schools and Broomfield’s Birch Elementary in response to continued enrollment declines. The changes are slated to go into effect in fall 2027, while open enrollment for the upcoming school year starts Nov. 1.
Parents Evan Harvie, Katharine Rosenthal and Theresa Schultz — who are represented by lawyer Eric Maxfield — filed the emergency motion for a preliminary injunction the day they filed the lawsuit. The parents represent the three Boulder schools marked for closure…