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.

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.

This election means DPS board members will disagree again

When new members are sworn in later this month, the Denver school board will gain something it hasn’t had in two years: dissenting voices.

Union-backed challengers leading in two of four hard-fought Denver school board races

Two school board candidates who agree with the direction of Denver Public Schools and two who want the district to change its trajectory were leading early Wednesday in a hard-fought election for control of the state’s largest school district.

After complaints, group will stop calling DSST a “for-profit charter school” in election mailers

A teachers union-funded independent expenditure committee called Brighter Futures for Denver Students made the claim in an election mailer.

Teacher, school finance lawyer face off to represent east Denver on school board

A bilingual English language development teacher is vying to unseat an incumbent Denver school board member, who is a school finance lawyer, in District 3.

Two candidates with southwest Denver roots battle to represent region on school board

Two political newcomers are dueling for a wide-open school board seat in southwest Denver, a part of the city that has seen a lot of school changes.

A record number of Denver schools got top ratings, but large disparities persist

Wide socioeconomic gaps persist even as Colorado test scores inch up