DPS board focusing on everything except what matters most right now
Collectively, board members and the superintendent spent 20 minutes Monday discussing school safety.
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[UPDATED] After setting squabble aside, DPS board makes a terrible decision
Monday’s Denver school board meeting offered an almost perfect microcosm of the board’s operational ineptitude over the past 16 months: struggling to get out of its own way, and then making terrible decisions when it finally does.
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A Beacon Network alum urges DPS board to preserve the innovation zone
The recent proposal from DPS Superintendent Alex Marrero to revoke the district’s partnership with the Beacon Innovation Zone breaks my heart. It is deeply troubling to me that a leader like Alex Magaña, who is leading on equitable education, is being penalized for all of his hard work.
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As East High parents, we demand the school board resign. More than 1,600 others agree
The current Denver Public Schools Board of Education has failed in its oversight responsibilities and has demonstrated an inability to lead and manage effectively. We are among a group of DPS parents that has banded together and launched a petition drive to demand that all seven members resign immediately.
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East High shooting prods Denver school board into woefully belated action
As Wednesday’s shooting of two administrators at East High School demonstrates in the starkest possible terms, the decision by the Denver Board of Education to remove school resource officers from high schools in 2021 was a grave mistake, and one with tragic consequences. Not surprisingly, no one involved is acknowledging this, at least not publicly.
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DPS power grab to dismantle the Beacon innovation zone is unwarranted
Why does DPS want to put an end to an organization that is showing promise? Power and control seem to be the answer.
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Despite some positives, more troubling signs from DPS board
The school board might close three severely under-enrolled schools, and members are getting along, but they continue a drive toward less transparency.
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Why is DPS undermining our innovation zone?
The DPS board and leadership seem more interested in imposing their will and reining in innovative practices than in focusing on what we at Beacon Network Schools are doing to serve our students.
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Introducing the Denver Public Schools Debt Clock
The simple, straightforward Denver Public Schools Debt Clock website, debuting today, serves as a stark reminder that postponing important decisions for political reasons can be costly -– literally as well as figuratively.
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Denver’s innovation schools await their fate
With Denver Public Schools innovation plan renewals coming up for votes over the next few months, we’ll be able to see in real time just how badly the school board has, with its meddling, damaged the concept of innovation.
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