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Top 10 Colorado Education Stories of 2022 — An Eventful Year

By Chalkbeat | December 22, 2022

By Erica Meltzer Dec 22, 2022 If you’re anything like us, you get to the end of the year and you can barely remember what happened. So we went back through our archives to reconstruct 2022. It turns out a lot […]

Seen Enough? Engaged Community Must Step In, Right the DPS Ship

By boardhawk | December 5, 2022

By Alan Gottlieb Boardhawk Editor Nov. 30, 2022 Every time something happens that makes it appear as though the Denver school board might move past its paralyzing issues, something else stops the potential progress in its tracks. On Monday, in […]

Denver School Closures Fails to Launch; Board & Superintendent at Odds Over Rationale, Process

By boardhawk | November 18, 2022

By Alan Gottlieb/Boardhawk And then there were none. Here are some random thoughts in the wake of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education’s 6-1 vote Thursday night not to close any schools for the time being, despite a budget crunch caused […]

Central Park’s Denver Discovery Spared — For Now — as DPS Board Rejects 10-School Closure Plan, Restarts Declining Enrollment Conversation

By Chalkbeat | November 18, 2022

By Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat Senior Reporter Nov 17, 2022 Denver Public Schools will not close any schools next spring, after the board rejected a last-minute recommendation from Superintendent Alex Marrero to shutter two small schools. At the Thursday meeting, Marrero apparently surprised […]

SWEET REPEAT FOR NORTHFIELD’S BOYS SOCCER! 2nd STRAIGHT STATE 4A CHAMPIONSHIP!

By Central Park EdNews | November 17, 2022

Photo by Sean Dougherty Northfield High School boys soccer team clinched its second straight 4A State Championship with a 3-0 win against Battle Mountain of Edwards Nov. 12. Coming into the game with a league record of 7-0 and an […]

Central Park’s Denver Discovery 1 of 5 Schools Now Recommended for Closure

By Chalkbeat | November 11, 2022

By Melanie Asmar Nov 11, 2022 Five Denver schools recommended for closure could get a temporary reprieve. Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero announced late Thursday that he was changing his recommendation. Out of 10 schools initially recommended for closure, five […]

Ignoring Denver’s dismal NAEP results won’t make them vanish

By boardhawk | October 26, 2022

By Van Schoales The alarming news from this week’s release of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores (also known as the Nation’s Report Card) for Denver Public Schools landed with not a single major story in the Denver media. […]

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