eric gorski
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Denver schools chief: Removing DACA protections would be ‘catastrophic’
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…
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Which slate to vote for in Denver’s school board race? Depends whom you ask
As we’ve noted here before, a lot is at stake in the upcoming Denver Public Schools board election this fall. Years of education reforms ushered in by a succession of pro-refom board majorities haven’t sat well with the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, among others, in the state’s largest school district. Charter schools, innovation schools, assorted…
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Denver’s school board makes clear it’s no friend of Trump, DeVos
The board of Denver Public Schools is nonpartisan by definition, and pro-education reform by inclination. Some of its key policy positions, like its support for charter schools, originally hailed from the right of center in their political evolution. Yet, none of that is about to smooth over the board’s displeasure with the Republican administration of President…


