Author: Steve Schuck
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PERSPECTIVE: A windfall for Colorado’s schoolchildren
Coloradans believe in opportunity and justice. Coloradans believe that hard work should be rewarded, that freedom matters, and that every child — regardless of background and circumstance — deserves the chance to rise as far as talent and effort will carry them. And yet, for thousands of low-income children in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and communities across our state, opportunity is too often constrained not by…
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GUEST COLUMN: You’ve got to be “freakin” kidding!
The Gazette’s lead headline on the top of the front-page on August 21 was, “Students Continue Learning Recovery”. Recovery? Returning to pre-Covid statewide failure rates of 60% to 70% is no reason to celebrate. Only 30 percent of Colorado’s students could read, write, add, and subtract at grade level before Covid and now we consider…
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GUEST COLUMN: It’s time parents demand academic results
A call to Denver parents, spiritual leaders, civic activists, business leaders, average tax paying citizens. Are you aware that 75% of the Black and brown children in your schools cannot read, write, add and subtract at grade level (see attached report card)? Are you assuming that your DPS Board of Education members are focused on…
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OPINION: It’s more about addiction than housing
Watching the documentary “Denver in Decay” generated several reactions, all of them very upsetting. While Denver is not my home, having lived in Colorado Springs for 60 years, Denver has always been a very special place for a variety of reasons. Denver has been our own version of “the shining city on a hill.” To…