Parents and students plead with Denver school board to spare their schools from closure
Nov 18, 2024
Parents and students plead with Denver school board to spare their schools from closure
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Using terms like “illogical,” “unethical,” and “half-baked,” frustrated parents and students made their final cases Monday to Denver school board members who will vote later this week on whether to close 10 schools with low enrollment.
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Denver Public Schools has asked a federal court to dismiss two separate lawsuits filed by former deans at East High School who were shot and injured by a student two years ago.
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The percentage of students with good attendance fell sharply between 2019 and 2023, while the share of chronically absent students more than doubled, offering further evidence of the pandemic’s shattering effect on the nation’s classrooms.
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In a recent analysis, Katherine Bowser of the National Council on Teacher Quality finds that teachers are increasingly being priced out of housing in their communities.
The 74 What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance.
