The initial idea to champion a financial literacy campaign started in 2019 when alumni partners came together in Ednium’s Design Lab to identify issues they could impact in public-school education.
Ednium: Championing financial literacy is an investment in the future Read More »
Our Instagram account will be taken over by the Hernandez family Friday at 5 p.m.. Matthew is a fourth-grader at Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside, and his mother, Anabell, has some thoughts to share, along with compelling photos and videos.
Coming Friday: Boardhawk’s first social media takeover Read More »
A memo sent this week to Denver innovation school leaders from Denver Public Schools officials delineates in stark terms just how many flexibilities previously granted to the schools will be stripped away by a recent Board of Education policy change.
UPDATED: DPS details new innovation school limitations Read More »
Since taking office last Nov. 30, the Denver school board has spent less than 2 percent of its time together discussing and asking questions about student learning and academics, a review of board agendas and meeting recordings shows.
Total Denver school board time talking student learning since November: 41 minutes Read More »
The board debate before the vote revealed deep fissures among members, who, in the wake of last November’s election, appeared to represent a unified progressive coalition.
Divided, embittered Denver board approves innovation school curbs Read More »
The current attempt by the board to limit the strategic plans of innovation schools is built on a fundamentally flawed argument because it assumes that the innovation schools are the problem.
Two principals explain why the fight for Denver innovation schools matters Read More »
It is clear to us that the so-called executive limitations on “Standard Teacher Rights and Protections” represent a solution in search of a nonexistent problem. The Denver Board of Education would be wise to turn its attention instead to the profound challenges facing the district as we cope with the fallout from two-plus years of disrupted learning.
Denver innovation school parents to board: Don’t create solution in search of a problem Read More »
Stripping some autonomy from Denver’s 52 innovation schools would be an illegal move by the Board of Education, a former state senator asserts in a letter sent to the board.
Ex-state senator says curtailing innovation school waivers would be illegal Read More »
A proposal led by two Denver school board members to curtail some of the autonomies bestowed on the district’s 52 innovation schools by state law is likely to be modified and perhaps delayed after a tense debate during a day-long meeting Thursday.
Amid dissent, innovation changes could be modified by Denver school board Read More »
What Rocky Mountain Prep has done for my family over the years just goes to show how a small school community can be responsive in ways larger schools or districts can’t be.
Rocky Mountain Prep goes above and beyond to serve my son Read More »
