Tag: Denver Public Schools
Cheltenham Elementary principal resigns
Dr. Kalpana Rao, the embattled Denver Public School's Cheltenham Elementary principal, has resigned.
Rao was criticized by families and Padres & Jovenes Unidos for having...
Back-to-school jitters: Cheltenham principal and parents speak as investigation looms
Denver public school Cheltenham Elementary principal Kalpana Rao held a last-minute Thursday press conference to apologize for not understanding parents' concerns that their children...
Reader’s view: Cheltenham teacher rejects embattled principal’s apology
Several weeks ago, Nat Stein of The Colorado Independent broke a story about a group of Latino parents who organized to oust Cheltenham Elementary principal...
Reader’s view: Denver Public School’s chief schools officer on Cheltenham Elementary
Denver Public School's Chief Schools Officer Susana Cordova wrote the following in response to Nat Stein's article "Parents complain Denver elementary school principal humiliates...
Second try $20M Denver Schools bill survives kill committee
In a near-overnight partisan flip-flop, the Senate State Affairs Committee voted 3-2 today to pass a second effort at adjusting the amount of money Denver...
Do-over $20M Denver Schools bill passes out of House as clock...
“We have to watch what happens here. You see how it affects us,” she said. “So far, I have not heard a good reason for anyone to vote no on this... We have to show them that community members are watching them.”
VIDEO: Bennet implores senate not to play politics with education reform
Colorado US Senator Michael Bennet seems to love his job as much as he hates the senate. That is, he seems to relish the opportunity to make change that matters as much as he reviles the fact that senate rules and procedures and politics work against anyone making any kind of change at all. On Wednesday he said something just like that but more eloquently in a speech on the Senate floor, when Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican, invoked one of the chamber's myriad arcane rules to stall debate on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, legislation Bennet has helped write and that would remake the controversial "No Child Left Behind" act.
Dept. of Education to distribute $150 million in new round rewarding...
The U.S. Department of Education has announced the latest round of grants for the Investing in Innovation, or i3, fund. The $150 million will be distributed to winning school districts, groups of school districts, non-profits affiliated with school districts or consortium of schools that raise student achievement and close performance gaps. It will also look for applicants seeking to improve teacher effectiveness, as well as those that address graduation and drop-out rates.
VIDEO: Hancock releases pointed TV spot–calling out DPS for failed schools
“Every morning, we drive 18 miles across town to East High School, because our neighborhood school is one of the many across Denver that are failing,” begins Denver Mayoral candidate Michael Hancock's new television ad.
Bennet pleads case at CU Boulder: ‘If you vote, we win’
BOULDER -- Swinging through University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus minutes ago, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet pleaded soft and loud for students here...