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      UPDATED: DPS board to vote June 16 on restoring some innovation school freedoms

      Boardhawk - June 9, 2022
      The Denver school board will hold a special meeting June 16 to vote on restoring some freedoms that were stripped from 52 innovation schools by a hastily passed policy change earlier this spring.
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      Innovation zone leaders see new law as a step forward

      Boardhawk - May 13, 2022
      In the end, supporters of innovation schools and zones did not get everything they wanted out of a new state law offering an added layer of dispute resolution when innovation zone plans are changed or status is revoked, but they’re framing it as a step forward nonetheless.
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      For DSST seniors, exciting futures come into focus

      Ernest Gurulé - May 9, 2022
      One by one, each school paraded its seniors to the stage to make their big announcement. Each announcement was followed by thunderous cheers and more than a few tears.
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      DPS move to muzzle innovation dissent generates big blowback

      Boardhawk - April 29, 2022
      If Superintendent Alex Marrero and his team intended to calm the storm that has erupted during the past month over the attempt to limit innovation school freedoms, a letter intended to muzzle dissent appears to have backfired. In fact, district employees are becoming more outspoken in their displeasure over a multitude of issues they say are being mishandled by the current administration.
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      Tay Anderson reflects on non-coup, other DPS board flashpoints

      Alan Gottlieb - June 21, 2022
      Denver Public Schools board Vice President Tay Anderson discusses board relations, the coup that wasn't, and other issues related to DPS board dysfunction
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      DPS board must pivot after embarrassing itself

      Alan Gottlieb - June 13, 2022
      After last week’s 6-1/2-hour Denver school board meeting featured a couple of cringeworthy interpersonal clashes, I’m sure at least some board members are embarrassed by what the public witnessed. They should be. While the in-fighting rages, work of substance is being neglected.
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      Denver school closure criteria seem far removed from equity

      Van Schoales - June 9, 2022
      DPS still has an opportunity to keep this process from devolving into a fiasco, but that will require the district to address the impacts on families who will be directly affected by any school closure.
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      RAAD’s vision for arts-based learning needed in Denver’s Far Northeast

      Boardhawk - June 8, 2022
      It is evident there is a gap in arts-based learning models in the Far Northeast, and our no-audition, public charter school model will provide every student with an opportunity to explore and develop their talents, in an area where there’s an urgent need for arts-based learning.
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      DPS board restores some innovation school freedoms

      Boardhawk - June 17, 2022
      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.
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      School closure guidelines don’t include performance

      Boardhawk - June 6, 2022
      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.
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      Colorado’s teacher evaluation system undergoing big changes

      Boardhawk - June 1, 2022
      "With the updated evaluation system in Senate Bill 70, signed last week, Colorado joins a growing list of states moving away from practices the Obama administration hoped would improve schools."
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      Colorado’s charter school law ranks nations’s second best

      Boardhawk - February 19, 2021
      Colorado's charter school law is the second strongest in the nation, according to a national advocacy group's rankings released this week.
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