The Denver Public School Board just navigated a difficult set of decisions regarding the renewal of 16 of Denver’s 58 charter schools. The DPS charter renewal process and outcome was an exemplar for how to do school authorizing with a focus on student learning, whether charter- or district-managed. These Denver charter school renewal decisions will […]
Van Schoales
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @VanSchoales
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Opinion: 5 ways to end education redlining in Denver
In Denver, with the school-choice window now open, thousands of families are struggling to decide where their kids should go to school next year. And this is after nine months of many families feeling as if they were on their own, scrambling to support their children’s education with what would be best described as a […]
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Opinion: Learning from the 2020 election how to teach democracy
About 157 million Americans voted for president this month, the largest turnout ever for a presidential race. Unfortunately, there remains a large number of Americans that believe that the election was rigged, and a recent survey suggests that about one third of Americans are open to QAnon conspiracy theories. We are a country more divided […]