Melanie Asmar

Melanie Asmar

Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat Colorado

Melanie Asmar covers Denver Public Schools. Write her at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

Board members also changed Marrero’s contract to eliminate performance bonuses, which the teachers union has criticized.

Four seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for election in November.

Half of the displaced students will go to higher-performing schools, and a significant number are moving from district-run schools to charter schools.

Ten Denver schools with low enrollment will close or partially close at the end of this school year.

Seclusion is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone. Parents say it is misused and traumatic, while educators describe it as a necessary last resort.

However, Commissioner Susana Córdova said she will sign a new assurance that the state is in compliance with Title VI, which bans discrimination on the basis of race.

Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’

'It’s becoming a bigger and bigger issue for school districts in rural communities to be able to hire and retain folks,' one of the report authors said.