Denver Public Schools
The flap between DJ Torres and Xóchitl Gaytán brought to mind a contentious era of the Denver school board a few years ago.
A school board policy would be more prominent and harder to change than the superintendent policies that already exist. But a board member worried about giving families false comfort.
Smith will stay in Denver through the end of the school year. The district will start a search for his replacement soon.
Ideas submitted so far include an indoor-outdoor sports complex, new locations for charter schools, and apartments for teachers.
Meanwhile, the Denver school board is debating its own policy that would similarly bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant.
Cost concerns and competing priorities hindered a planned expansion that would have opened the school to more students without auditions.
The proposal would bar school police officers from ticketing or arresting students if doing so would put them at risk of deportation.
More than 1,000 Denver teachers called out of work Friday, with some joining students to march around the Colorado Capitol on a day of nationwide protests.
The family of Luis Garcia, a 16-year-old student who was shot and killed outside East, agreed to drop its appeal of a wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, court documents show.
Superintendent Alex Marrero had originally recommended that the board vote no.
Abraham Lincoln High has been on the state watchlist for low performance longer than any school in Denver. But Lincoln boosted its state rating to ‘yellow’ this year at a challenging time for the Hispanic community it serves.
By Chalkbeat’s count, the number of people who sign up to speak at public comment has plummeted since the board put time limits in place.
District officials said the popular AI chatbot’s new features could lead to cyberbullying and expose students to content related to self-harm and violence.
Innovation zones were established during Denver’s school reform era. But they lost ground in recent years amid changes on the school board.
The Denver school board approved a two-year, $3.5 million contract with TeachStart to provide year-long substitute teachers for certain schools.
The trend of declining enrollment could lead to more school closures, even as the school board has enacted a four-year moratorium with a major caveat.
Denver Public Schools has a new policy that calls for closing low-performing schools. But the state recently raised the ratings for 2 DPS schools, sparing them from closure under that policy.
Groups supportive of charter schools outspent teachers unions by nearly 3 to 1, but the big spending didn’t pay off.
The shift in the structure for the Beacon schools is more evidence that Denver is moving away from the policies and practices put in place during its education reform peak.
Gaytán was reelected last month to a second four-year term on the board. She previously served a two-year stint as president from 2021 through 2023.