Tag: East High School Shooting
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Denver Public Schools safety plan includes mental health emphasis, training
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero released the final draft of the district’s comprehensive safety plan Friday. The plan is chock-full of acronyms and education buzz words, but short on goal-oriented details. “This was never going to be addressed on the granule level,” Marrero told The Denver Gazette Friday. In the aftermath of a shooting…
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Denver Public Schools superintendent requested secret meeting to discuss policy change
In the hours after an East High School shooting wounded two administrators, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero requested a secret meeting with the board of education to discuss changing the district’s policy on campus police, The Denver Gazette has learned. The stated purposed of the proposed executive session — which is closed to the…
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42 DPS students required pat downs the week of East High shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 350 students so far this school year received a threat assessment — of whom at least 42 across Denver Public Schools required a pat down the week that an East High School student shot two administrators. Approximately 89,200 students go to DPS schools. …
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East High School parents’ welcome students back to campus
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 20-degree weather Wednesday did not deter more than 100 parents from welcoming East High School students back to campus after a shooting left two administrators wounded last month. Two weeks ago, a student being patted down before class shot at two administrators. The accused…
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DPS board president reprimands Auon’tai Anderson, backs up his claim Denver mayor poised to step in
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After three days of denials, Denver Public School Board President Xóchitl Gaytán backed up Auon’tai M. Anderson’s claim that the Denver mayor was poised to step in with an executive order if the Board of Education failed to act. She did so with a five-page…
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SRO critic Auon’tai Anderson asked Denver police chief to deploy scores of officers to schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Despite his public opposition to school resource officers, Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson asked the Denver Police Department to deploy scores of SROs to schools following the shooting at East High School that injured two administrators, the mayor’s office said. The mayor’s…
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City of Denver to pick up tab for police officers returning to schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Denver Public Schools high school students return from spring break, many will be greeted Monday by an armed police officer — a show of force after two administrators were shot at East High School last week. But not every high school. Only East and…
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Denver Public Schools can’t say how many justice-involved students attend public school
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Public Schools does not have a mechanism to track students involved with the juvenile justice system, The Denver Gazette has learned. And that’s a problem, community members and parents said. The revelation takes on new meaning in the aftermath of an East High School…
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Respite for a weary city: First Day of Hope aims for community healing after East High shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Less than a week after two East High School administrators were shot by a student who later took his own life, there are signs that the Denver community is rallying from its grief. Fourteen churches and hundreds of people gathered at Church in the City-Beth…
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Auon’tai Anderson, Michael Hancock in feud over return of SROs to Denver schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson and Mayor Michael Hancock’s office offered two competing versions of why DPS decided to bring back school resource officers to Denver schools. The way Anderson put it, the DPS board was forced to reverse its 2020 decision…