Author: Melanie Asmar Chalkbeat Colorado
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Colorado task force tackles aggressive and violent student behavior toward teachers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was Halloween, and school social worker Tricia Van Horssen was dressed as Anger, the cartoon character from “Inside Out,” when she was assaulted by one of her students. The costume, she said, was ironic because she loves her job at a high school in…
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Trump administration: Judge should reject Denver Public Schools’ attempt to stop ICE raids at ‘sensitive locations’
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A judge should reject Denver Public Schools’ attempt to block immigration enforcement actions at schools because the district can’t show that it’s happened anywhere or that the prospect of enforcement has caused sufficient harm, the Trump administration argued in a motion filed by attorneys for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Denver Public Schools had…
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School closures: Denver board considering amending policy to add a pause
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The Denver Public Schools board is considering pausing any future school closures until closures that are underway are executed and plans for vacant buildings are finalized. The proposal comes three months after the board voted in November to close or partially close 10 schools with low enrollment at the end of this school year. More…
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Rent-free housing: Denver real estate firm donates apartments to 10 early-career teachers
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ten early-career Denver classroom teachers will get free rent for a year in a new upscale apartment building in the northwest part of the city — a novel, if incremental, approach to the problem of rising housing costs making it difficult for teachers to live…
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Group’s new ‘Mile High School Guide’ serves as data dashboard for Denver schools
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It’s been three and a half years since a committee recommended that Denver Public Schools develop a dashboard of data about its schools. The district has not done so — but an advocacy organization launched its own dashboard this week. The Mile High School Guide allows families to look up information about all 197 of…
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Denver school board paid Auon’tai Anderson $3,500 settlement
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver school board paid board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson a $3,500 settlement in March, according to school district records. Anderson said the payment represents reimbursement for legal expenses he incurred during a 2021 sexual misconduct investigation, in which the most serious allegations were not…
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Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado schools ‘are investigating themselves’
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Editor’s note: We’re republishing this 2020 story from Chalkbeat in light of accusations of an “incarceration room” at McAuliffe International. The lawyer for the school’s former principal rejected such a characterization by members of the Denver Public Schools board. Nearly every day, Brenna Wann saw staff members take young students, sometimes kicking and screaming, to…
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Tickets and arrests didn’t increase when SROs were reinstated at Denver schools, police data shows
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Tickets and arrests of students at 13 Denver Public Schools campuses were lower when police officers were not stationed inside the school buildings than when they were, according to state and local data from the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years. The data backs a key criticism of school resource officers, which is that they increase…
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Denver’s public schools struggle with enrollment as waitlists shrink in the district
Waitlists at many Denver public schools are shrinking as enrollment decreases in Colorado’s largest school district, according to school choice data from this past spring, as reported by Denver Gazette news partner Chalkbeat Colorado. Five years ago, East High School had the longest waitlist for incoming ninth graders in all of Denver Public Schools with…
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Denver school board to vote on whether to release recording of closed-door meeting about police
The Denver school board will hold a special meeting Friday to vote on whether to release the recording of a closed-door meeting it held in March. Several news outlets, including Chalkbeat and The Denver Gazette, are suing Denver Public Schools for the recording of the meeting. DPS spokesperson Bill Good said Thursday that he didn’t…