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How will Susana Cordova tackle inequity at Denver Public Schools?

Dec 12, 2018

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by Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado

The challenges that Susana Cordova will face if she’s hired next week as superintendent of the Denver school district were laid bare at a public forum Tuesday night. Standing in a high school cafeteria with a microphone in her hand, the deputy superintendent and sole finalist for the top job faced tough questions about why…
Adams 14 looking for grants first, as it prepares to pay for an external manager

Dec 4, 2018

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by Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado

About to embark on a search for a manager to run its district, Adams 14 officials have been looking at how to pay for that external management. Although the state ordered that the district hand over management to a third party, following years of low performance, the order doesn’t come with money. Many community members…
Chalkbeat’s election post-mortem reminds us it’s all about the ground game

Nov 15, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Chalkbeat Colorado’s Nic Garcia offers a post-game analysis of last week’s school board elections that serves as a primer for political junkies and campaign tacticians of every stripe. Garcia dissects the highly successful efforts of teachers unions to regain ground they had lost to education reformers in three high-profile school districts – Denver’s, Aurora’s and…
Denver schools chief: Removing DACA protections would be ‘catastrophic’

Sep 2, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Rolling back protections for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children would prove “catastrophic” for Denver Public Schools and the city, DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said in a statement Thursday. Boasberg joined other school and community leaders from across the country in speaking up as President Donald Trump is expected to announce any…
The tug-of-war continues over the destiny of the state’s largest school district

Jul 13, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It seems like a political paradox: Some of the nation’s largest inner-urban school districts – longtime strongholds of teachers unions and their anti-reform orthodoxy – arguably have been among the boldest in experimenting with a wide range of reforms. Maybe those districts’ hard-pressed school boards – their backs to the wall for so many years…
Listen up: Lawmakers go public with previews of the legislative session

Dec 29, 2016

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JOEY BUNCH

Lawmakers will do plenty of debating and backstabbing in the four months that follow the Jan. 11 kickoff for the next legislative session. Over the next two weeks, they will make their case to the public. The Capitol press corps, and anyone else who wants to attend, will hear from top interest groups on both…

chalkbeat

How will Susana Cordova tackle inequity at Denver Public Schools?

Adams 14 looking for grants first, as it prepares to pay for an external manager

Chalkbeat’s election post-mortem reminds us it’s all about the ground game

Denver schools chief: Removing DACA protections would be ‘catastrophic’

The tug-of-war continues over the destiny of the state’s largest school district

Listen up: Lawmakers go public with previews of the legislative session