T. Michael Boddie

The Denver school board has spent more than $100,000 this spring hiring outside firms to help with communications challenges, bypassing the district’s own $3.8 million, 32-employee communications department.

Denver School of the Arts has long had a diversity problem, which could potentially be resolved as part of a pending expansion — an early test for incoming Superintendent Alex Marrero.

Fewer parents of young children are participating this year in Denver Public Schools’ SchoolChoice system, raising questions about possible enrollment declines and an accompanying financial hit to the district.

The degree of autonomy over how innovation zone schools  approach teaching, learning and the academic calendar allows them some creativity in how they move forward this summer to mitigate widespread 2020-21 learning loss.

The Denver school board’s decision to reopen two comprehensive high schools that struggled in the past is popular with some people, and baffling to others.

One Colorado charter network has kept its doors open for in-person learning all the way through the COVID-19 pandemic, and in that time, no student, faculty or staff member has transmitted the virus to another person. The secret? There is none.

Nearly one in six families have pulled their student out of DPS because of dissatisfaction with the remote learning environment, a new survey shows.

Students of color in Denver Public Schools choose fully remote learning at twice the rate of white students, raising questions about whether the pandemic will widen already large opportunity gaps.