Five Issues to watch as Denver Public Schools students return to the classroom [Chalkbeat Colorado]
Denver superintendent Tom Boasberg speaks to students at Denver’s McMeen Elementary school, which was celebrating its fifth year in a row among the district’s top performers.
Denver Public Schools understandably gets more attention than any other school district in the state.
It’s Colorado’s biggest school district and a nationally recognized petri dish for reform. As a skyline of construction cranes stand testament to the city’s booming growth, DPS continues to grapple with the ever-present challenges of educating students on the margins of society.
Superintendent Tom Boasberg just re-upped for another two years leading the country’s fastest growing large urban school district — and he has a largely supportive board behind him. Although some schools got a head start, most of DPS’s roughly 90,000 students said goodbye to summer Monday.
Here are five issues to watch in DPS this school year:
Equity and integration
Elections
Greater autonomy — if schools want it
Manual High
New schools — and where to put them
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