Denver Green School-Northfield has a dilemma most schools would envy: It’s too popular. With the first round of choice enrollment that ended late last month, 103 more rising sixth graders want to be DGS-N Goats next year than the school […]
Police investigate the shooting of two administrators at Denver’s East High School Wednesday. The incident prompted the school board to change its policy and to permit police in schools. Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post (This story was originally published […]
Check out the February edition of the student-produced Swigert Eaglet Post! Central Park Education News (cpednews.org) would like to highlight student writing projects from area schools. We’re looking for news, prose, poetry, commentary, advocacy or opinion. Student publications such […]
Innovation zones are an invention of Denver’s education reform era that grant traditional public schools some of the same flexibility and freedom enjoyed by charter schools. A new Denver Public Schools board and administration is less supportive of these experiments […]
(Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the most recent policies innovation schools must follow.) The Denver school board Thursday (3/9/23) sent back for revisions the renewal of the innovation plan for the Northeast Denver Innovation Zone that includes […]
The Denver Public Schools board voted Thursday to close Central Park’s Denver Discovery (middle) School in June. The board also agreed to close two elementary schools, Fairview and Mathematics and Science Leadership Academy. All three have fewer than 120 students. […]
Denver mayoral candidate Lisa Calderón speaks while some of her opponents await their turns. From left to right, seated: Jesse Parris, Aurelio Martinez, Kelly Brough, Mike Johnston. (Photo by Brian Weber for Boardhawk). Education was the theme at […]