Carrie Olson elected to second stint as president of Denver school board
Former teacher Carrie Olson's election, by secret ballot, puts an experienced leader at the helm of a school board that had a reputation for dysfunction and infighting.
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Denver Public Schools bars administrator amid McAuliffe seclusion room investigation
As part of the ongoing fallout from an investigation into the use of a seclusion room at McAuliffe International School, Denver Public Schools has barred an administrator responsible for overseeing...
Denver school board gives Superintendent Alex Marrero an $8,000 bonus with his second evaluation
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero met just over 80% of his goals last school year, a record that earned him an $8,235 bonus, equal to 2.5% of his annual...
Denver Public Schools pledged to pay tutoring vendors based on their results. Did it work?
Two outside companies that Denver Public Schools hired to tutor students in an effort to make up for lost learning fell short of some targets that could have earned the...
Some Denver Public Schools still don’t have air conditioning. Seventeen will close early Wednesday because of it.
Record August heat forced the district to release students early from 14 schools on Tuesday, and 17 principals announced early closures for Wednesday.
Tickets and arrests didnât increase when SROs were reinstated at Denver schools, police data shows
When SROs were reintroduced on 13 Denver Public Schools campuses for the last two months of the 2022-23 school year, after a shooting inside East High School, the monthly average...
Charter school centering Black students misses enrollment target, wonât open in Denver this fall
5280 Freedom School, a charter elementary school centering Black students, wonât open as planned in Denver this fall, and the school board isnât considering giving it more time.
Denver Public Schools has lacked a safety chief for 6 months amid rising gun violence
The district attributed a delay in filling the position to several factors, including media coverage of the school board, whose infighting has been widely reported, and a desire to find...
The schools that take Coloradoâs “most vulnerable” students are disappearing. Can they be saved? Should they?
Meager state funding, dire staffing shortages and changes to federal law have pushed the system to the brink. Lawmakers hope a cash infusion and regulatory changes will spur the opening...
DPS failed to provide speech therapy to more than 1,000 young students due to staff shortages, state says
The problem is widespread. A state complaints officer found that 28 Denver elementary schools did not have speech language pathologists for some period of time between January 2022 and now.