School boards
Youngquist said he is supportive of the decision to launch an investigation and is “confident that my name will be cleared.”
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 State Board of Education’s vote means about 800 students will have to find a new school next year.
District 49 filed the lawsuit a day after passing a policy barring transgender youth from school sports teams that match their gender identity.
The new policy passed in a 3-2 vote.
“We've now created a situation where an adult is having a conversation with a minor concerning that minor's genitalia,” said one father who opposes the policy on transgender athletes.
Superintendent Alex Marrero accused Youngquist in a letter of ‘policy violations, racial insensitivity, and unethical conduct,’ among other allegations.
Eighteen titles, including ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Kite Runner,’ were returned to library shelves this week.
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.
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.
Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’
The Elizabeth school district will file an emergency motion to halt enforcement of the judge’s order, a spokesperson said.
“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.
Teachers said they were entitled to a 5.2% cost-of-living raise. Denver Public Schools said it didn’t have the money. An arbitrator sided with DPS.
The board had received lots of communications asking them to affirm their support and clarify their guidance to schools.
District officials didn’t say how students with access to the books would be able to find them.
Denver’s school boundaries have not been systematically reviewed in decades.
The amendment would pause any future school closures until closures that are underway are executed, which the superintendent said could take 2 years.