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 […]
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 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 […]