“You have accomplices and luchadores in us,” said board member Angela Cobián.

Four seats are up for grabs on the seven-member board, which means the election has the potential to shift the board’s balance of power.

The black-and-white fliers appear homemade and anonymous; unlike legitimate campaign literature, they do not say who made them.

The disagreement is the latest escalation in what has become a tension-filled final stretch in the school board race.

Given how much cash the groups have on hand, the total could surpass $2 million.

When a political newcomer running to represent heavily Latino southwest Denver on the Denver school board saw an election campaign mailer that pictured her face alongside those of President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, she felt “genuine shock.”

The mailer was paid for by Brighter Futures for Denver Students, an independent expenditure committee that is supporting the candidacy of Jennifer Bacon, who has worked as a teacher, administrator and lawyer.

Of the Denver school board races on the November ballot, none packs more intrigue than the fight for District 4.

The Denver school board on Thursday approved two resolutions jabbing at President Trump’s first proposed education budget and Education Secretary DeVos’s vision of school reform.

Auontai “Tay” Anderson is student body president of Manual High School, chair of the Colorado High School Democrats and command sergeant major of the Junior ROTC 5th Battalion.