Author: Melanie Asmar Chalkbeat Colorado

Jennifer and Jamin Alabiso proposed what they thought was an innovative way for their 10-year-old son, who has autism, to receive special education services during remote learning – specifically, the 45 minutes per day of reading help he needs to reach grade level. The family lives less than a block from his Denver school, and…

Less than two years after being appointed superintendent of the school district where she was once a student, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova announced she is leaving the district and her home city to take a job in Texas. She will be the deputy superintendent of leading and learning in the Dallas Independent School District, according…

Most of Colorado’s 30 largest school districts are still planning to offer some in-person learning for the rest of the calendar year, a Chalkbeat analysis found. But the situation is changing rapidly, as COVID-19 cases continue to soar and more districts pivot to online learning. By the time you read this story, it could be…

Denver teachers who are parents will have access to low-cost child care for the first few weeks of school, which will be held remotely because of the coronavirus. In a letter to staff Friday, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova said the district’s after-school program, along with some community organizations, will provide child care for teachers, principals,…

Police officers will be phased out of working in Denver’s public schools over the next year, with all school resource officers gone from middle and high schools by June 2021. The Denver school board voted unanimously Thursday to end Denver Public Schools’ contract with the Denver Police Department to provide school resource officers. The vote…

About 8 percent of Denver high school students this year took an ethnic studies course, such as African American History or Hispanic American Literature, district data show. Even fewer took a concurrent enrollment ethnic studies courses, in which students can earn college credit. The district’s new administration wants to change that, especially for students of…

The overwhelming majority of Denver families get into their first-choice school. This spring, 83 percent of students going into the transition grades of kindergarten, sixth, and ninth grades next year got accepted at the campus they listed No. 1 on their school choice form, according to data from Denver Public Schools. That’s up 2 percentage…