Streamlined DPS enrollment in works
Denver Public Schools plans to ask all students to choose their schools, and charters will be part of the new system.
Archive for: June, 2011
Monday Churn: Key week for DPS
The Denver and Douglas County school boards face important decisions this week, and BEST grant applicants will learn if they make the cut
More DPS schools seek innovation status
Six more Denver schools are seeking innovation status – if approved, they’ll bring the total number of DPS innovation schools to 19
Thursday Churn: Discouraging stats
Numbers of homeless students and of kids eligible for free and reduced-price lunches continue to rise in Colorado. Plus more news & links
Dougco vouchers moving forward
Dougco held its first voucher lottery Wednesday and its voucher charter is up for approval next week as the district pushes forward despite lawsuits
National ed blog highlights: June 22
More education opinion and commentary from across the country.
- Eva Moskowitz of Geoffrey Canada for NYC mayor? GothamSchools
- Family values don’t matter anymore? Thoughts on Education Policy blog
- The rise and fall of teacher ‘coolness.’ Philadelphia Notebook
- KIPP and the college completion conundrum. Rick Hess Straight Up
- Rage against the machine. Mike Antonucci’s Intercepts
- D.C., Detroit and school autonomy. The Quick and the Ed
- Why I am marching July 30. Diane Ravitch
- Disruptiness in K-12: Historical perspectives. Sherman Dorn
Dougco defends voucher pilot
Douglas County school district leaders say they’ll vigorously defend their voucher pilot against two lawsuits filed Tuesday in separate efforts to shut it down
Lawsuits filed over Dougco vouchers
A second lawsuit was filed today challenging Douglas County’s pilot voucher program, joining an earlier action by the ACLU and others. Read the complaint
Schools will get $67.5 million more
State revenues have strengthened enough to provide another $67.5 million for schools next year.
Bills come due for new tuition policy
A key legislative decision made a year ago will start hitting family checkbooks this summer, when state college tuition bills come due.
