Denver is creating a Black Student Success team to spread effective strategies to its schools

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. By Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat Colorado

The announcement of the new initiative, called the Black Student Success team, comes 4½ years after the Denver school board passed a Black Excellence Resolution. The resolution required each DPS school to develop a plan to boost Black student success, but some schools have struggled to put those plans into place.