Denver Public School board member Xóchitl Gaytán discusses alleged board violations by John Youngquist during the Denver Public School board meeting in downtown Denver on Jan. 9, 2025.

As expected, drama returned to the Denver school board meeting last Thursday — and it landed with the usual thud.

At the Jan. 9 meeting of the Denver Public Schools board, drama was plentiful, but facts seemed scarce. For half an hour, ...

Three school board members — Michelle Quattlebaum, Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán and Scott Esserman — publicly accused John Youngquist, who joined the board in late 2023, of “behavior ...