Tag: East High School
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Anderson proposes to have police near, but not in Denver schools
Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson — who led the push to remove police officers from campuses in 2020 — now supports a long-term policy for their return near schools. Anderson’s proposal is a hybrid approach with Denver police officers acting as community resource officers that are not stationed in a school, but…
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‘This is not enough’: East High students to continue fight for gun violence prevention
Students say they’re happy, but not satisfied, with the state’s new gun control legislation
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Denver Public Schools ‘discipline matrix’ needs reform, experts say
The single most effective thing the Denver Public Schools can do to protect its nearly 90,000 students is to rework the discipline matrix used to address problematic behavior. That was the assessment of Melissa Craven, the district’s former interim deputy chief of support services for its Department of Climate and Safety. She spoke Monday at…
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Parents of Luis Garcia speak publicly for the first time since shooting death
Santos Garcia cried in the rain. He returned — for the first time on Friday — to East High School where his 16-year-old son, Luis Garcia, was shot 13 weeks ago. Luis Garcia died after two weeks on life support at the hospital. Garcia, who got emotional speaking about his son, was critical of the…
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Parent group calls for greater community engagement in creation of safety plan | CLASS NOTES
John Menges got choked up Monday morning talking about the fear his child lives with every school day. He has a child who attends East High School who told him they are too fearful of violence to use the restroom. “Change moves at a snail’s pace,” Menges said to a small group gathered at the…
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Family of East High School student files wrongful death claim against DPS
Attorneys for the family of Luis Garcia, the East High School student shot and killed in February, have taken the first step in filing a lawsuit against Denver Public Schools, court records show. The wrongful death claim filed on behalf of Garcia’s parents, Santos Garcia Mata and Criselda Bobadilla Sandoval, seeks damages in excess of…
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School safety survey: Denver teachers want smaller classes, not metal detectors or SROs
What do Denver teachers need to feel safe on campus? It’s not metal detectors or school resource officers, according to a survey conducted by the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA). In the wake of the March shooting at East High School, in which a student shot two administrators, the association surveyed its members to learn…
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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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Why won’t Colorado’s public schools answer to the public? | Vince Bzdek
In the midst of a nationwide push by parents for more say over what’s going on in their schools, Colorado school districts are going the opposite direction, doubling down on secret meetings and backdoor deals and stonewalling urgent requests for information from the very people they are supposed to serve. If it weren’t for the…
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Denver Public Schools announces safety consultant contract
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Public Schools (DPS) Department of Climate and Safety announced Thursday a new partnership with Robinson Corporations Security Group to aid the superintendent in creating his long-term safety plan. The DPS Board of Education called for a long-term, comprehensive safety plan last month following a…