Longtime commentator Eric Sondermann weighs in on Denver Public Schools board shenanigans and achievement challenges. Spoiler: He’s disgusted and dismayed.
Sondermann: DPS tests our capacity for outrage
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Citing safety, DPS appeals court order lifting Brandon Pryor ban
DPS attorney Andrew Ringel goes far beyond Pryor to argue that Kane is interfering with the district’s independent oversight of schools and threatens school safety by usurping the district’s rules for school visitors and volunteers and encouraging others to harass district employees.NewsJudge orders Denver Public Schools to lift ban on Brandon Pryor
The ruling amounted to a sweeping victory for Pryor over Colorado's largest school district.NewsHumbled by huge MacKenzie Scott gift, KIPP Colorado has big plans
The generic-sounding email that landed this fall in KIPP Colorado charter school network Executive Director Tomi Amos’s inbox, presaging a $6 million gift from philanthropist MacKenize Scott, could easily have been passed off as some kind of unwanted solicitation.NewsPryor hearing nears conclusion as both sides prepare final arguments
The lengthy hearing has gone beyond Pryor’s actions to probe a deeper undercurrent whether DPS has done enough to provide adequate resources and opportunities to Black students in response to longstanding equity concerns by community leaders, parents and educators.
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Black boys and Black men don’t have space in education
Students, namely Black boys, are significantly more likely to graduate high school and enroll in college if they have a Black man as a teacher in elementary school. Black boys improve standardized test scores when they have Black men as teachers. Simply put, Black boys – and students more broadly – benefit from having Black men in the classroom.CommentaryMore trivial time-wasting from a Denver school board member
Last week I came across the latest example of at least one Denver’s school board member focusing on the trivial in place of substance, while simultaneously trying to use board power to breathe down the neck of innovation schools.CommentaryDowntown Denver Expeditionary School fosters a nurturing environment
We love and support our students, and we encourage their interests and needs.CommentaryHighline Academy expansion reenvisions how schools serve students, families
The look and function of this space truly is the future, and is what we can expect to see more in schools going forward.
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Chalkbeat: Meeting video helps illuminate podcast dispute
Chalkbeat has an excellent update on the Know Justice Know Peace podcast dispute, after senior reporter Melanie Asmar viewed video of an August meeting...QuickhitsPandemic increased parent schooling concerns: Poll
According to a story in USA Today: Schooling during the coronavirus pandemic forced parents to take a hard look at how their children were being...QuickhitsSondermann: DPS tests our capacity for outrage
Longtime commentator Eric Sondermann weighs in on Denver Public Schools board shenanigans. Spoiler: He's disgusted and dismayed.QuickhitsDPS board restores some innovation school freedoms
A divided Denver Public Schools Board of Education Thursday restored some of the autonomy to 52 innovation schools it had stripped away in an overly-hasty move last March.
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