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Denver has spent more than $160,000 searching for a new superintendent
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The Denver school district spent $161,375 over the past four months on a superintendent search that has resulted in a single finalist: Deputy Superintendent Susana Cordova. A public records request shows that the district paid more than $100,000 to a Denver political consulting firm, Dimension Strategies, which ran nine of 11 community meetings. The firm…
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Denver school board delays announcement of finalists for superintendent job
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The announcement of the finalists for the open superintendent position in the Denver school district, which was supposed to happen today, has been postponed until Friday, Nov. 30, according to a one-sentence press release from the district Monday afternoon. The seven-member school board, which is tasked with choosing the next superintendent, has been searching since…
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Former Denver schools superintendent Tom Boasberg lands a new gig
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Former Denver superintendent Tom Boasberg has been named superintendent of another organization 9,000 miles away: the Singapore American School in Southeast Asia. Boasberg will start his new position July 1. He stepped down as superintendent of Denver Public Schools last month after nearly 10 years at the helm of the 92,000-student district. The Denver school…
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Activists post demands to DPS board for next superintendent
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About 50 community activists took to the sidewalks outside of the Denver Public Schools headquarters Monday to voice their concerns about the next superintendent of the 90,000-student school system. The group, known as Our Voice-Our Schools (OVOS), published a manifesto Monday afternoon that highlighted its wish list for the next superintendent. Among the requirements: no…
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LOMAX | Price of PERA bailout gouges Colorado taxpayers
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What is the purpose of state government: To provide basic services to the public, or ever-increasing amounts of money to pension funds? That’s the question Colorado taxpayers will be asking today, tomorrow and long into the future after the passage of SB-200, a reform-and-bailout bill for the state’s public pension system. Passed just minutes before…
