Denver Public Schools
Youngquist said he is supportive of the decision to launch an investigation and is “confident that my name will be cleared.”
Marrero calls the strategy the School Transformation Process, and said it’s meant to avoid state intervention in persistently low-rated schools.
Ten schools are set to close or partially close next month due to declining enrollment. The proposal would have halted any further school closures until 2029.
The union blasted DPS for declaring an impasse during Teacher Appreciation Week.
Superintendent Alex Marrero accused Youngquist in a letter of ‘policy violations, racial insensitivity, and unethical conduct,’ among other allegations.
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.
Four of the seven board seats are up for election in November.
The Trump administration has given states 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in practices that promote DEI — or lose their federal funding.
One building will become a preschool center. Another will be the new home of an existing middle and high school.
This year, charter schools are serving about 15% of public school students in Colorado.
Construction was supposed to start soon. But the project has been put ‘on hold for now’ as the district gathers more feedback.
Mamás de DPS wrote that continuing with its motion, now that many students have been reassigned to new schools for next year, could create “an untenable psychological situation for Denver families.”
DPS argued that it has ‘done everything within its control to minimize uncertainty and disruption and to ensure that all impacted students can transition to new schools as smoothly as possible.’
Las Escuelas Públicas de Denver habían solicitado que los tribunales restablecieran una norma previa que trataba a las escuelas como “lugares sensibles” donde medidas de control de inmigración no deben practicarse a menos que hubiera un peligro inminente para la población en general. El juez dijo que no.
Denver Public Schools had asked the court to reinstate a previous policy that treated schools as “sensitive locations” where immigration enforcement should only take place if there is immediate danger to the public. The judge said no.
The Denver Police Department initially said Tuesday that the victim was not a DPS student, describing him ‘an adult male’ in a post on X.
“It is not my desire to have our students, staff, and families living in fear that this board and this superintendent are out there just closing schools,” board member Michelle Quattlebaum said.