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East High shooting prods Denver school board into woefully belated action

By Alan Gottlieb /Boardhawk | March 24, 2023

Photo: Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Author’s note: I offer these thoughts with the caveat that I am a 66-year-old white man, with many blind spots and a set of life experiences very different from those of people more directly affected by […]

Isabella Bird Looks to the Future with Optimistic Plan

By Brian Weber /CPEdNews | March 20, 2023

At Izzi B, spirits are up. Hopes are enrollment will follow. Over the past five years, the elementary school near the southeastern border of Central Park has lost 110 students. This year Izzi B (aka Isabella Bird Community School) had […]

Denver Green School-Northfield in enviable position of being too popular

By Brian Weber /CPEdNews | March 20, 2023

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 […]

Denver board lifts ban on police on campus

By Melanie Asmar /Chalkbeat | March 19, 2023

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 […]

Swigert’s Eaglet Post, February edition!

By Central Park EdNews | March 19, 2023

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 […]

Northfield teachers vote to leave NEDenver Innovation Zone; DPS may dissolve a second zone

By Melanie Asmar /Chalkbeat | March 17, 2023

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 […]

DPS board orders CP schools to revise innovation plans that include some policy waivers the board curtailed in 2022

By Brian Weber /CPEdNews | March 13, 2023

(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 […]

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