New school grading website ignores the hard-won progress of English learners
In nearly every case, our schools that are classified as “yellow” (accredited on watch) all have high numbers of English learners that are below the “safe linguistic threshold” of a CELApro level 4 or 5.
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Are SW Denver’s English learners ready for CSAP?
This video evaluates whether southwest Denver's charters bring any value to our large population of English learners. Please watch and pass it on.
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Kepner’s kids deserve a well-rounded education
All parents deserve the basic respect and appreciation for their tax dollars, and low-income families have a right by federal law to fully benefit from the portion of Title I dollars earmarked toward community engagement to become active partners in their children’s education.
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We’re now streaming on the Internet!
I love it when my ideas pay off. I’m very excited about the fact that we’re now live streaming our video feeds on the...
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Congratulations to tonight’s winners
As you may have heard by now, we’ve had a changing of the guard to represent certain areas of town, as well as what appears to be the...
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Some movement on changing the school year start date
As you recall, I introduced a resolution to the board last month to direct the district to begin the process of making a recommendation to change the school year start date to after Labor Day, as a way to relieve the heat in the buildings in August.
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