The beginning of the race for Denver Public Schools board opens up three seats on the seven-member board — and a set of questions about how DPS should approach school improvement, district management, testing, teacher evaluations, and more.

In southeast Denver, incumbent Anne Rowe, who has represented District 1 since 2011, is being challenged by Kristi Butkovich, the executive director of the Denver Alliance for Public Education.

In the first in a series of interviews with each of the candidates for Denver board, Chalkbeat chatted with Rowe about why she is running for re-election and about education issues in DPS and District 1.

DPS Board member Anne Rowe is running for re-election

Rowe says that while the Denver Plan laid out ambitious goals, the district still has to figure out how to reach them. 

“So now we have the framework. Now comes the hard part — we have to implement it with integrity and transparency to actually achieve our really ambitious goals.”

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