When school starts in Denver next month, school resource officers will be back
Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat
Senior Reporter — Chalkbeat Colorado
Email: masmar@chalkbeat.org
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SROs to stay at 13 Denver campuses, armed officers to help with weapons searches under safety plan
Superintendent Alex Marrero called the plan “an index of what we have to offer.”
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Divided Denver school board votes to keep police in schools
The new policy reverses a 2020 board decision to remove SROs from Denver schools and puts to rest — at least for now — a debate that has raged in the community for nearly three months
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7 questions for Greg Cazzell, Denver Public Schools’ new safety chief
The DPS position had been vacant for six months.
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How Colorado is filling gaps as last-resort schools dwindle
Experts are hopeful a new state law will lead more facility schools to open. Meanwhile, school districts are creating their own programs, and creative and skilled educators are finding ways to meet students’ needs in traditional classrooms.
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Colorado is pouring more money into schools for kids with special needs. But are those schools working?
The special schools have no central oversight and instead are the responsibility of multiple state agencies. A new law aims to increase accountability.
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The schools that take Colorado’s “most vulnerable” students are disappearing. Should they be saved?
Colorado is racing to save the schools that serve children whose home districts can’t or won’t meet their intense needs
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Expulsions are low in Denver. District officials say that’s how it should be.
Last month’s shooting of two East High School deans by a student who was being searched for weapons has placed renewed scrutiny on discipline in Colorado’s largest school district
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Amid rising gun violence, 13 Denver campuses will have school resource offices after spring break
When classes resume Tuesday, two SROs will be at East High, the district’s largest school with 2,500 students
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Denver failed to provide speech therapy to more than 1,000 young students, state decision says
State hearing officer found 28 Denver elementary schools were not staffed with speech language pathologists sometime between January 2022 and now. Some schools went without for as long as a semester.