Chalkbeat Colorado: Teacher Dez Baldonado began her remarks with an apology.

“First, allow me to apologize for speaking this rapidly,” she told the Denver school board at its meeting last week, leaning into the microphone so close that the board members could hear her gasp for breath between every sentence. “However, the limit of two minutes to address you makes it necessary, in order to share everything I would like.”

It’s been more than two years since the Denver school board put time limits on public comment at its meetings. The goal was to curtail the marathon sessions that occasionally lasted until midnight or later, when more than 100 people would sign up to speak about a controversial topic.

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