Adams 12 names supt. finalists
Six finalists for superintendent of the Adams 12 Five Star Schools have been announced by the school board after a search managed by a consultant and contacts with more than 170 potential candidates.
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September, 2009
DPS releases proposed reform update
Calling it “an absolutely critical time for our schools and our city,” Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg on Tuesday unveiled a proposed update to the district’s reform map that hones in on teacher quality.
The draft Denver Plan 2009 lists its top strategy as ensuring teacher effectiveness, from developing a shared definition of effective teaching [...]
State audit faults CollegeInvest
A new state audit has found problems with CollegeInvest scholarship and loan forgiveness problems, but the agency says there are reasons for that. Updated story
Stimulus cash bails out CDE programs
More than $7 million in federal stimulus funds will be used to pay for an assortment of state education support programs that had lost their state funding to budget cuts or were never funded in the first place.
School autonomy key to portfolio model
Independence for individual schools and a sense of urgency about reform are key elements for school districts that are moving toward the “portfolio” model of school management, according to speakers at a Denver conference this week.
DPS teachers ok contract, other districts close
Denver teachers have ratified a contract agreement. Pueblo and Douglas County are close to agreement, but Boulder’s impasse drags on.
Hernandez down but not out at Chavez
PUEBLO – An emotional five-hour meeting ended Friday with Lawrence Hernandez out of the top job at the charter schools network he founded but still in control of the original Cesar Chavez Academy in Pueblo and its sister high school, Dolores Huerta Preparatory High.
But that control will be limited in one aspect – he won’t [...]
Crowding at Metro forces tough conversations
The “trailer park” that has popped up on the Auraria campus to handle overcrowding at Metropolitan State College of Denver is symbolic of some much bigger challenges confronting the urban campus.
Student numbers are growing, budgets are shrinking, and too many students aren’t succeeding the way they should. Because of these issues, administrators, faculty, alumni, students [...]
Hernandez, wife out at Cesar Chavez?
Earlier versions of this story misidentified a Cesar Chavez Schools Network employee who was placed on paid administrative leave. This version is correct.
Pueblo news outlets Thursday were reporting that three leaders at the Cesar Chavez Schools Network have been suspended by board president Dennis Feuerstein.
Lawrence Hernandez and his wife Annette, who founded the original Cesar [...]
DPS candidates on stage at Bruce Randolph
Some chairs on stage were empty. But five of the eight expected candidates for Denver Public Schools’ board of education answered questions for more than an hour Wednesday night at Bruce Randolph School in northeast Denver.
One candidate even sang.
Metro Organizations for People, a community advocacy group, was the host of the candidate forum also sponsored [...]
