Quickhits

Chalkbeat has an excellent update on the Know Justice Know Peace podcast dispute, after senior reporter Melanie Asmar viewed video of an August meeting between the four young women who created the podcast and senior Denver Public Schools officials. Chalkbeat, like Boardhawk, filed a Colorado Open Records Act Request for the video, which the district […]

According to a story in USA Today: Schooling during the coronavirus pandemic forced parents to take a hard look at how their children were being educated, and many parents report being more concerned about their children’s schooling because of it. A newly released survey by The Harris Poll, commissioned by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools,

Longtime commentator Eric Sondermann weighs in on Denver Public Schools board shenanigans. Spoiler: He’s disgusted and dismayed.

A divided Denver Public Schools Board of Education Thursday restored some of the autonomy to 52 innovation schools it had stripped away in an overly-hasty move last March.

Notably missing from the Declining Enrollment Advisory Committee criteria was any measure of school performance. Instead, the Declining Enrollment Advisory Committee chose to focus on schools serving the fewest students.

Colorado’s charter school law is the second strongest in the nation, according to a national advocacy group’s rankings released this week.

“Whatever is in their hearts, public school leaders have institutional, professional reasons to slow-roll reopening.”

Should Colorado test its public school students this year to get some data on how the pandemic has affected different groups of kids? Or is the idea absurd on its face during a pandemic?

Colorado charter schools will receive more than $2 million in state grants to support innovative solutions to help state students affected by the economic, social and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.