Kristen Fry, who brought the suit, was accused in August 2023 of using a racial slur and of assault against a Black community activist and political consultant, Hashim Coates, that led to a rush to judgment by the school board to cast Fry as racist. She was later exonerated by a video of the incident that DPS withheld until subpoenaed by her attorneys.
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Boardhawk exclusive: Records obtained through the Colorado Open Records Act show 68,818 teacher absentee days at 157 DPS schools last school year compared to 39,772 teacher absentee days at 162 schools in the 2019-20 school year — a 73% increase.
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“First and foremost, I’m just a real zealot for charter schools. I believe so deeply in the opportunity for families to choose a great school. I think it’s one of the most important decisions they’ll make and I believe the charter movement was created to promote innovation, to prove something, and, more than anything, represent a family’s choice.”
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The 10.7 percentage-point increase in Rocky Mountain Prep family voting turnout since the 2019 election was four times the growth of the city average.
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This coming fall, two of the three zone schools, McAuliffe International and McAuliffe Manual Middle School will revert to district-run schools but operate under their individual innovation plans. The third member, Swigert International, is seeking to join the Luminary Learning Network (LLN), the last of the original three DPS innovation zones.
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“It used to be a simple, shared agreement,” said University Prep Chief Operating Officer Alastair Dawe. “School doors open, and children pour into the building. But the world is more complex today and different people need different supports just to get to school.”
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Bill Kurtz: “We didn’t have things like valedictorians and all that. It was about each person becoming their best version of themselves in a community that fostered that with everybody.”
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A bill that would have stripped much of the autonomy from Colorado’s public charter schools died in the Colorado House of Representatives Education Committee on a bipartisan 8-3 vote late Thursday.
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The Moonshot Innovation Space invites more leaders from more fields to make a lasting impact with youth in the community. It’s a nine-month program for leaders in Colorado who are working in youth-serving spaces, such as education, healthcare, local government, environment/sustainability, housing, food, the arts, and more.
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EDUCATE Denver, a diverse group of civic leaders, developed more than 25 goals for DPS that the group will track monthly, to measure progress with a focus on raising achievement for students of color, special education students, and those from low-income families.
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