Tag: Katy Anthes
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Denver Public Schools improves graduation rate in 2022 while dropout rate bumps up
Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Denver Public Schools made small but symbolically significant gains with the school district increasing its four-year graduation rate by 2.5% last year. But that news was tempered with the dropout rate eking up 1.2%. The dropout rate last year in Denver was still better than 2019, which saw 4.5% of…
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Aurora teacher named Colorado Teacher of the Year
Aurora Public Schools music teacher Jimmy Lee Day II was named Colorado’s 2023 Teacher of the Year in a surprise ceremony Friday. Day, the band director and instrumental teacher at East Middle School, has over 13 years of experience as an educator and has taught at East Middle School since 2017, according to the Colorado…
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School achievement is bouncing back … from an F-minus to an F | Vince Bzdek
New student achievement scores from around the state were released last week and were generally touted as positive as schools begin to bounce back from the pandemic — sort of. “We celebrate the fact that student scores were better in most cases than they were in 2021,” Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes said in a press…