Popular IB school to be placed at Smiley
The Denver school board voted 6-1 early Friday to move McAuliffe International School from its home in Stapleton several blocks southeast into Smiley Middle School.
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DPS board hears emotional pleas about teachers and tenure
The Denver school board will make a final decision at 3 p.m. Monday regarding the fate of 220 probationary teachers.
More Denver students placed at top choice schools
Hundreds more Denver students earned a spot in their top choice school in the second year of the district’s streamlined SchoolChoice process but the number of participating families did not increase, district officials announced Wednesday. SchoolChoice is a single application and simplified process that was unveiled in Denver Public Schools last year. The new process [...]
Flurry of activity in DPS board election
There’s been a flurry of activity this week in the Denver Public Schools board election. Longtime school finance lawyer Mike Johnson Wednesday officially launched his campaign to fill the central Denver seat now held by term-limited Jeannie Kaplan. “I finally decided I could organize my life to make this work and that is was too [...]
Discipline concerns flare in Denver schools
The Denver school board gets briefed on its discipline policy as complaints from teachers about unruly classrooms grow louder.
Analysis: What the DPS board minority wants
The Denver school board’s minority camp is often portrayed as simply opposed to the majority’s position. Here’s a closer look at their vision.
Anxiety swirls at DPS school after principal gets pink slip
A group of parents at Denver’s Ashley Elementary School are looking for answers about why their principal was abruptly fired and about other changes to the struggling — but beloved — school.
Photo: Would you wear these student-designed shoes?
Kudos to Wheat Ridge High School art teacher Franky Scaglione and his art students, dubbed “Fresh 23,” who are competing in the Vans Custom Culture contest. Check out all the wild shoe designs entered in the competition to get in the running, so to speak, for $50,000. If Wheat Ridge wins the dough, they plan to use the [...]
United Way pumps $7 million into school readiness, etc.
Mile High United Way is pumping $7 million into 117 local nonprofit partnerships with the goal of creating “measurable change” in the areas of school readiness, youth success and adult self-sufficiency. “Thanks to the enormous generosity of our donors and volunteers, and the exceptional work of these nonprofits, more children will enter school prepared to succeed, more young people [...]
Video: CEA celebrates National Teacher Day
The Colorado Education Association is honoring the work of educators across Colorado today for National Teacher Day by highlighting the dedication of two Colorado teachers who took a classroom pen pal project to the next level to foster cultural understanding between students of two very different schools. Learn more about the collaboration between Hanson Elementary School in Commerce City [...]
