by tech | Feb 28, 2012 | Middle Schools
It appears that the district’s “student-based budgeting” has actually created havoc at Smiley Middle School, which is an IB program in northeast Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood. The board received this letter from a Smiley parent yesterday: I...
by tech | Dec 3, 2011 | Board of Education, English learners, Middle Schools
I’ve been spending a lot of time with data in the last week, reviewing test scores and tracking school improvement. I am still very concerned that schools with high populations of kids classified as English learners are being judged inappropriately. I’m...
by tech | Nov 5, 2011 | Board of Education, Community, Middle Schools
“Education’s role in our society cannot be minimized…It is quite probably the most critical investment a people can make.” — Richard T. Castro Kepner Middle School, the cornerstone of the Westwood community, in Rich Castro’s district, is under attack. I...
by tech | Sep 16, 2011 | Middle Schools
Note: a special thank you to Ms. P.K., who corrected my grammar in the original title of this post! Suggestion duly noted and embraced! We had a lot of presentations at last night’s board meeting about the prospect of collocating the Creativity Challenge...
by tech | Jun 23, 2011 | Board of Education, High Schools, Middle Schools
As some of you may realize, in 2010, the board approved two more DSST charter schools, but the locations have not been specified. This practice of approving a school without its location is a policy that needs to be stopped, simply because it shows that the decision...
by tech | Apr 30, 2011 | Community, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Middle Schools
Here is the agenda for the upcoming community “conversations” about the proposals that the district will be bringing before the board in June. Note the incredibly short time for presentations by the proposed charter schools, as well as the sliver of time...
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