Author: Eric Gorski, Chalkbeat Colorado
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10 things to watch as Denver teachers go on strike (VIDEO)
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The negotiating room is dark. Makeshift lesson plans are ready to be unpacked from boxes, if they haven’t been yet. Bullhorns and picket signs are at the ready. Denver teachers will go on strike Monday morning for the first time in a quarter century. It’s a big development not just in the ongoing dispute between…
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Why civil rights groups are split over impending Denver teachers strike
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A half-dozen civil rights and community group leaders united Thursday to rally behind pay incentives for teachers in high-poverty Denver schools, aligning with the school district in the most contentious piece of a pay dispute with its teachers union. A statement from the coalition, delivered as Denver is on the verge of its first teachers…
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Denver district, union meet separately with Polis as he weighs intervention
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Representatives of the Denver school district and the teachers union met separately Tuesday with Gov. Jared Polis as the Democratic governor weighs whether to intervene in a pay dispute between the two sides. A brief statement from Denver Public Schools described a “productive conversation” and said Polis “is continuing to push both sides to talk.”…
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Bennet and Boasberg: Denver schools needed big changes, and the work isn’t nearly done
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The two men responsible for guiding Denver schools through dramatic changes over the last 13 years shared the same stage Friday and said their decisions to close two neighborhood high schools were necessary steps to give kids better opportunities. Current Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg and his predecessor and former boss, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, were…
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Boasberg explains his decision to bring back Antwan Wilson: ‘He has so much to contribute’
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The expertise and integrity Antwan Wilson displayed over a decade working in Denver schools led the district to bring him on as a consultant after he was forced to resign as chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools, Denver school superintendent Tom Boasberg said Friday. Wilson left the D.C. job in February amid board calls for his…
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Bennet and Boasberg: Denver schools needed big changes, and the work isn’t nearly done
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The two men responsible for guiding Denver schools through dramatic changes over the last 13 years shared the same stage Friday and said their decisions to close two neighborhood high schools were necessary steps to give kids better opportunities. Current Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg and his predecessor and former boss, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, were…
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Why Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s names — and faces — are all over this fall’s Denver school board races
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Angela Cobián has spent much of her young career as a teacher and community organizer. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, the 28-year-old has advocated for justice for immigrants and spent two years teaching English language learners at a low-income northeast Denver school. So when the political newcomer running to represent heavily Latino southwest Denver on…
