Denver Public Schools appears poised to marginalize the state-mandated District Accountability Committee. It is the latest example of using Policy Governance to drive agendas and limit public scrutiny and accountability. It’s just the latest example of the district and board’s move away from transparency and public accountability.
Is DPS trying to sideline state-mandated community accountability panel? Read More »
Based on state test scores released last week, many DPS students are in academic crisis, and some board members are ignoring that and opting to indulge in Trumpian grievance-fests instead of doing their duty.
DPS board members indulge in Trump-like grievance while students suffer Read More »
The DPS board got back to work with a retreat Monday, and quickly got up to its old, bad tricks as well, violating the spirit if not the letter of Colorado’s open meeting law.
Will the new year be better for DPS, board? Here’s what to watch Read More »
Denver Public Schools board Vice President Tay Anderson discusses board relations, the coup that wasn’t, and other issues related to DPS board dysfunction
Tay Anderson reflects on non-coup, other DPS board flashpoints Read More »
After last week’s 6-1/2-hour Denver school board meeting featured a couple of cringeworthy interpersonal clashes, I’m sure at least some board members are embarrassed by what the public witnessed. They should be. While the in-fighting rages, work of substance is being neglected.
DPS board must pivot after embarrassing itself Read More »
A lack of clarity on academic goals for Denver Public Schools is emblematic of the district’s and school board’s struggles and strategic incoherence.
Lack of clarity over academic goals, measurements shows DPS is adrift Read More »
The extent to which Denver Public Schools and its board are stumbling and bumbling through an ill-conceived effort to limit the freedoms of their 52 innovation schools would be comical if the stakes for children weren’t so high
Denver innovation foes devolving into circular firing squad Read More »
Reading at grade level by the end of third grade is considered predictive of future academic success. Yet according to the data, just 5 percent of Black third-graders and 5 percent of Latino third-graders met or exceeded grade level in assessments given last fall.
Simplified or not, the bottom line – curtailing the freedoms of innovation schools – remains the same. It’s a bad idea, and a classic case of a solution in search of a problem
Simplified innovation school attack remains just as toxic Read More »
Denver Public Schools staff presented some troubling student learning data to the school board recently, but the board seemed largely uninterested.
Denver school board needs to shift its focus to student learning – now Read More »
