A local foundation is paying for large event tents for outdoor classrooms at three Park Hill elementary schools, as well as a learning pod for low-income kids from three other schools in northeast Denver.
If education is an essential function of our society, close behind the medical profession even during a pandemic, then why are so many public schools closed to in-person learning? That’s the provocative question Mike Miles posed during a recent talk. Listen to it here.
The “Nice White Parents” podcast tells truths that will make you cringe.
Van Schoales, president of education advocacy group A+ Colorado, calls out the Denver school board for its recent letter to the community criticizing parent-organized “pandemic pods” for learning.
Denver’s seven-member board of education has posted on its website a lengthy letter urging parents not to enroll their children in so-called pandemic pods because doing so could “exacerbate academic and opportunity gaps among our children.”
Colorado Public Radio’s website has a long story this morning based on a review of school district teacher surveys. Teachers are anxious and in some cases feel as though their input was overlooked, or collected too late.
Amid the muddle messaging around reopening schools, teachers unions across the country are often proving inflexible in their approach, acting more as obstacles than thought partners, Rick Hess argues in a well-reasoned column.
Denver Public Schools today joined several other large metro are districts and decided not to open its schools to in-person learning through at least Oct. 16.
Records obtained through a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request show that of the 20 Denver elementary schools where parent fundraising brought in the most money, 18 had student populations that were at least two-thirds white. Those schools brought in on average $439,940 per school over the past three years.
Today’s bargaining session between DPS and its teachers union will be streamed live, for those who like to observe sausage-making.
