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Update: At 5:15 p.m. Friday, Erica Meltzer blogged that Denver Public Schools administrators came back to the bargaining table and offered teachers the opportunity...
Negotiations grew more tense between the Denver teachers union and the district on Tuesday as the two sides struggled to find common ground over its...
Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association have been negotiating for more than a year against a backdrop of widespread protests over teacher pay.
Now,...
Compared with the statewide average, the Denver school district is top-heavy with administration.
In the 2016-17 school year, Denver had one administrator for every 7.5...
At a morning assembly marking the first day of Susana Cordova’s tenure as Denver schools superintendent, the most telling moment was not the speeches...
The more than 100 bills filed on the first day of Colorado’s 2019 legislative session include proposals to address the teacher shortage, bolster mental...
The Colorado legislature convenes Friday with Democratic majorities in both chambers and a Democratic governor-elect who made education a key part of his campaign....
Nearly 30 years after she began her career in Denver as a bilingual teacher, Susana Cordova was selected Monday as superintendent of the 92,000-student...
Most Denver teachers would get raises under a new salary structure proposed by the school district. The proposal would boost the salary for first-year...