Teachers: The Colorado Department of Higher Education needs you. The DHE is looking for high school teachers who are willing to participate this summer in a Core to College Initiative, which attempts to promote collaboration between K-12 and higher education in the subjects of math and language arts. The initiative will bring high school teachers and [...]
Parents upset that five probationary teachers at their school will not have their contracts renewed next year kept their children home from school Tuesday in protest. Teachers and staff confirmed Wednesday that about 100 of the school’s 413 students were absent from classes at Schmitt Elementary in southwest Denver. Several teachers and parents burned the [...]
Are you getting nervous about how to fill those long summer hours with your kids and keep them learning? Look no further.
Matt Gianneschi is resigning as deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education to become vice president of policy and programs for the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.
Cautiously optimistic. That’s one way to describe teachers’ attitudes about the pending rollout this fall of Senate Bill 10-191, the so-called teacher effectiveness policy.
The Denver school board voted unanimously Monday to have staff tweak the district’s controversial “do not rehire” practice targeting teachers.
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.
The Denver school board will make a final decision at 3 p.m. Monday regarding the fate of 220 probationary teachers.
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 [...]
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 [...]
