Former Colorado speaker Terrance Carroll to work for Denver Public Schools

Carroll represented the northeast part of the city as a Democratic state representative from 2003 to 2011.

These new schools want to open in Denver

The Denver school district did not solicit applications this year for any specific new schools, but that didn’t stop three entities from signaling their intent to apply.

Why this Denver elementary school has replaced detention with yoga

"I think yoga is about getting calm and chill,"

Students at Denver’s George Washington High say their voices were unheard in principal selection

Students, parents, and teachers were offered a say in who was named the next principal.

These Denver schools want to join the district’s ‘innovation zone’ or form new zones

Innovation zones are often described as a “third way” to govern public schools.

After criticism, Denver will change the way it rates elementary schools

The changes will lessen the impact of early literacy scores on a school’s overall rating, while also raising the bar on how many students must ace the tests for a school to be considered good.

Denver schools in “innovation zone” want charter-like financial freedoms

The Denver school district is soliciting more schools to join its first “innovation zone.”

Disparities persist even though most high-poverty schools in Colorado have gifted programs

Black and Hispanic students in Colorado are placed in gifted and talented programs at a lower rate than their peers.

Denver’s school choice process starts Feb. 1. Here’s what’s different this year.

It’s all online this year, which means no more paper applications. And the timing has been pushed back.

1.4 million more free lunches would be served to Colorado kids under proposed legislation

The bill making its way through the Colorado state legislature has the potential to give free meals to about 18,000 Denver Public Schools students from low-income families who were not receiving them before.

Denver wants more affluent schools to prioritize enrolling poor students

Officials have invited nine more schools where fewer than 40 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch to consider it.

Denver scraps an idea to convert an old elementary school into teacher housing

Neighborhood residents balked, pushing the district to reopen an elementary school there instead.

Denver students taking longer to graduate, even as other districts report improvements

Statewide, four-year high school graduation rates inched up again, reaching a new high with 79 percent of all students graduating on time in 2017.

What’s in a school lunch? A Denver district wants parents to see for themselves.

“We’re using the same ingredients you’re using when you cook a scratch meal for your family.”

‘It is kind of crushing:’ Southwest Denver projected to lose nearly 2,000 students

Demographers to predict that Denver Public Schools, once the fastest growing urban school district in the country, will begin to see its numbers shrink.

Decreasing enrollment growth and increasing test scores in Denver add up to no specific requests for new schools

For the first time in at least eight years, Denver isn’t calling for any specific new schools.

Denver council tries to end exploitation of businesses owned by women, minorities

These smaller companies often work as subcontractors to large firms and sometimes get stiffed on change orders and wait months or years for payment.

Civil rights and community groups: Adjust inflated Denver elementary school ratings

Too tough, not tough enough: Denver’s complicated school rating system is under attack from all sides

Parents use the color-coded ratings to decide where to send their kids, which means the ratings have real-world consequences for enrollment and funding.

A new DPS board member resigns from her teaching position to avoid conflict of interest

Carrie Olson has been a teacher in Denver Public Schools for 33 years.