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Superintendent’s cuts result in $5M in annual savings from 38 central office positions
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Superintendent’s cuts result in $5M in annual savings from 38 central office positions

By Nicole C. Brambila | Colorado Politics, via The Denver Gazette Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero laid off dozens of employees in the central office to save the district roughly $5 million annually. The 38 eliminated positions will be effective July 1, according to a memo sent to staff on Friday. “We are facing great uncertainty compounded by significant concerns for our future funding from both the state and national levels,” Marrero wrote. “This all comes on top of a period of declining birth rates and lower enrollment across our city and the nation. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Denver school district sues to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants
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Denver school district sues to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants

By Nicole C. Brambila | The Denver Gazette Denver Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to prevent federal agents from arresting unauthorized immigrants at schools. If approved, the order filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday would pause implementation while the case proceeds through the legal system. Bill Good, a Denver Public Schools spokesperson, said that he believes the lawsuit is the first in the country filed by a school district. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Proposal would result in once-a-decade adjusting of Denver school boundaries
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Proposal would result in once-a-decade adjusting of Denver school boundaries

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado Denver Public Schools’ superintendent would have to “analyze and adjust” school enrollment boundaries every 10 years or less under a proposal being considered by the school board. Board member Scott Esserman, who introduced the proposal Thursday, said it was a long time coming. The district hasn’t systematically reviewed its school boundaries in several decades, since it was the subject of a school desegregation lawsuit that led to widespread busing. The proposal, known as Executive Limitation 19, would require the superintendent to analyze and adjust school boundaries in conjunction with the federal Census. READ THE FULL STORY AT CHALKBEAT COLORADO
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Denver school board considering pausing any future school closures
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Denver school board considering pausing any future school closures

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado The Denver school board is considering pausing any future school closures until closures that are underway are executed and plans for vacant buildings are finalized. The proposal comes three months after the board voted in November to close or partially close 10 schools with low enrollment at the end of this school year. More than a year and a half earlier, the board voted to close three small schools in the spring of 2023. The proposal doesn’t include a timeframe for a moratorium on school closures, though several board members floated the idea of two or three years during a meeting Thursday. READ THE FULL STORY AT CHALKBEAT COLORADO
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U.S. Department of Education investigating if Denver Public Schools’ ‘all-gender’ restroom discriminates
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U.S. Department of Education investigating if Denver Public Schools’ ‘all-gender’ restroom discriminates

By Luige Del Puerto | Colorado Politics, via The Gazette The Trump administration's education department on Tuesday said it is investigating reports that Denver Public Schools converted a girls' restroom at its flagship high school campus into an "all-gender" facility, calling it "discrimination" against female students.     "As a result, East High School now has an exclusive restroom for male students and no restroom for female students on its second floor," the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said in a letter to Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero. A spokesperson for Denver Public Schools defended the restroom as "(aligning) with our values of supporting every student." READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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ICE officials not allowed on Denver school campuses, superintendent says
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ICE officials not allowed on Denver school campuses, superintendent says

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette A top Denver school official has reiterated a district policy that does not permit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on campus as the Trump administration prepares to crackdown on illegal immigration. In his inauguration speech on Monday, Trump said he will go after criminals and gang members, a reference to, among others, the Venezuelan gang that is seeking to entrench its tentacles in metro Denver. Trump campaign officials have said his administration will go after individuals convicted of crimes and those who already face deportation orders.    “No individual should be permitted to enter the building without ascertaining whether the individual has a legitimate business or educational purpose,” Denver Public Schoo...
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Denver schools Supt. Marrero sets goals to lift test scores, focus on staff retention
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Denver schools Supt. Marrero sets goals to lift test scores, focus on staff retention

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero has far fewer performance goals this school year. But the goals he does have are more ambitious, he said last month. For example, Marrero wants the share of Denver students in grades 3-8 who meet or exceed expectations on the state literacy test to increase from 40% to 42%. His goal last year was for that percentage to increase by just 1 percentage point. Marrero’s targets, which the school board unanimously approved at a meeting last month, might be more ambitious. But the district still isn’t on track to meet the academic goals he laid out in Denver Public Schools’ strategic plan in 2022. READ THE FULL STORY AT CHALKBEAT COLORADO
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Judge denies Denver Public Schools’ wrongful termination lawsuit dismissal request
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Judge denies Denver Public Schools’ wrongful termination lawsuit dismissal request

By Sage Kelley | Denver Gazette Former McAuliffe International Principal Kurt Dennis' wrongful termination lawsuit against Denver Public Schools will continue, a judge decided, denying a request for dismissal the school district sought. United States District Court Judge John Kane denied the district's motion, based on arguments implicating student privacy and confidentiality laws, to dismiss Dennis' case. The court granted the district's motion to dismiss property interest claims based on a Fourteenth Amendment argument the former principal had raised in court.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver Public Schools will need to decide whether to keep or sell seven closed campuses
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Denver Public Schools will need to decide whether to keep or sell seven closed campuses

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette At the end of this academic year, students at seven schools to be shuttered in Denver will stream out of the hallways, spilling into courtyards and home for the very last time. But what will become of the buildings they leave behind? The short answer is Denver Public School officials don’t know yet. But parents have a few ideas. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Parent group sues Denver Public Schools over school closure decision, alleging ‘ulterior motive’
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Parent group sues Denver Public Schools over school closure decision, alleging ‘ulterior motive’

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado Seeking to reverse a recent decision by the Denver school board to close 10 schools, a group of parents sued Denver Public Schools this week, alleging district leaders had an “ulterior motive” for the school closures “of converting public resources to the private market.” The 142-page lawsuit was filed Thursday by Mamas de DPS. According to the lawsuit, Mamas de DPS is a limited liability company made up of parents whose children attend DPS. The group registered as an LLC with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office on Dec. 12. A group with a similar name, Mamás de DPS Peliando por Las Escuelas Públicas, rallied in 2022 in support of bilingual programming in DPS and against school closures, but it wasn’t immediately clear Friday whether the t...
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