cherry creek school district
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Cherry Creek assistant superintendent to leave full-time post amid district leadership upheaval
Cherry Creek School District Assistant Superintendent Tony Poole will not return to full-time work at the end of the school year and will instead transition to a limited post-employment arrangement. Ashley Verville, a district spokesperson, said the move was not a signal that Poole is retiring while acknowledging “110s are often a transition into retirement.”…
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Wife of former Cherry Creek superintendent placed on paid administrative leave
Less than a week after Cherry Creek Schools Superintendent Chris Smith abruptly resigned following allegations of a toxic work environment, his wife, Brenda Smith, has been placed on paid, administrative leave, officials confirmed Tuesday. Brenda Smith is the district’s chief human resource officer, a position she has held since 2019. “As of Monday, February 2,…
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10th Circuit agrees ex-Cherry Creek schools teacher failed to prove discrimination
The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed last month that the Cherry Creek School District ended the contract of a veteran elementary school teacher because of her performance, not because she expressed discomfort with racial equity trainings. Leslie Shannon, who is Black and Native American, came to Highline Community Elementary School in 2016 after many…
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Judge grants immunity to Cherry Creek schools officials who expelled student over anti-Semitic ‘joke’
Although the federal appeals court based in Denver decided last year that Cherry Creek School District officials violated the constitutional rights of a student by expelling him for an off-campus social media post, a judge on Friday concluded they could not be sued for their actions after all. Last July, the U.S. Court of Appeals…
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Where are the kids? Colorado school enrollment trends shed light on closure discussions
As three large metro area school districts grapple with school closures due to declining enrollment, a common question looms: Where did all the children go? To help answer that question, Chalkbeat looked at school enrollment data, county birth rate data and U.S. census data showing the number of children under 18 living in each school…
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Expulsion for student’s anti-Semitic Snapchat at issue in 10th Circuit oral arguments
Three federal judges appeared to believe on Wednesday that a Cherry Creek High School student who was expelled in 2019 over an offensive Snapchat message had plausibly claimed that the school officials’ discipline infringed on his free speech rights. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit heard oral arguments in…
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Colorado school district to pay $11.5M to sex crime victims
AURORA – The Cherry Creek School District has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement after a middle school teacher acknowledged having inappropriate sexual contact with several students, district officials said Monday. The settlement involving the district in the southern Denver suburbs was approved by the school board Monday morning and will be evenly split five…
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Plastics and career development entrepreneur Noel Ginsburg, a Democratic candidate for governor, has a dream
When Noel Ginsburg was 5 years old, he began spending time working the manufacturing line at his father’s pickle business in Arvada and says he fell in love with it. By the time he was in college at the University of Denver in the late 1970s, his father had sold the business he’d thought might…
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A distinct honor for Wayne Williams: He’s an FOM (friend of Madison)
One of Colorado’s more promising young artists is a fifth-grader at Cherry Creek School District’s Black Forest Hills Elementary School, in Aurora. Madison Lee was in fact just a fourth-grader when she was named Colorado’s winner in the national Doodle4Google competition, in which youths from across the country vie annually to have a logo of…
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Now, that’s what you call sweat equity
While Republicans were busy this week defending their new tax plan and the impact it will have on the middle class, Pueblo County is offering seniors and the disabled a deal in paying off their property tax. The county is promoting a program that allows those over 60 years old or who are disabled to…