Boardhawk: Denver Public Schools critic Brandon Pryor had his first day in court Tuesday to try to persuade a federal judge to uphold his free-speech rights and lift the district’s ban against him from school buildings and board meetings.

Pryor was on the witness stand all day before U.S. District Court Judge John Kane as part of his lawsuit against the district, which banned him in October from board meetings and schools where his children do not attend because of what the district described as his “repeated abusive, bulling, threatening and intimidating conduct” directed at DPS administrators, including Superintendent Alex Marrero.

The district also terminated his volunteer and football coaching activities.

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