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We are sad to say goodbye to our District Advocacy Director, Liz Reetz. Liz and her partner, Omar, are headed to Palo Alto, California where she will attend Stanford Law School. We want to thank Liz for her remarkable work with us. Her work in Aurora has gone the distance to mobilize more people to…
A+ Updates In need of some summer reading? Catch up on local education facts from A+: The Outliers: The State of Colorado School Districts Start with the Facts: Aurora Public Schools Start with the Facts: Denver Public Schools News to Share Moving Forward on School Restart Following the closure of Greenlee Elementary and Amesse elementary,…
A+ Updates Again, We Started with the Facts On May 9, A+ came out our latest report on the progress of student achievement in Denver Public Schools. Read the report today! News to Share Equal Money for All School Types Colorado took a huge step forward by passing HB 1375 which will, at long…
Denver Public Schools has recently received a slew of accolades: from ranking as the top district for school choice to having the second highest academic growth of large districts in the country, to gaining recognition for its structure for teacher leadership. With all of this recognition it may be tempting to think the district is…
A+ newest report, Start With the Facts: Aurora Public Schools 2017, showed the district has entered its fifth year of stagnant student achievement, as measured by state standardized tests, high school graduation rates, and ACT scores. 2017-2018 is Aurora Public Schools’ last school year to show it can improve before this body must take action in…
A+ Updates We Started with the Facts On March 22, A+ brought together community leaders for the release of Start With the Facts: Aurora Public Schools 2017, our latest report on the progress of student achievement in the district. After our 2015 report, If Not Now, the district took on some aggressive reform efforts, including…
In 2015, A+ Colorado and a coalition of Aurora-based community groups came together to inform the Aurora community and offer recommendations in the report. Nearly two years later, many measures of student achievement have remained unchanged.
A+ Updates A Month of Events This evening, join A+ and YEP for a conversation with renowned education reformer, Rick Hess. In his latest book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Rick Hess distills 25 years of knowledge working in and around school reform, offering a window into Hess’ thinking about what education reform is…
A+ Colorado provided feedback on Colorado’s Draft Plan for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, which the state expects to submit to the federal Department of Education on April 3rd. This plan outlines how Colorado expects to meet the legislative requirements of ESSA (in spite of Congress rolling back some critical regulations, and an administration…
A+ Updates A BOLD New Report Read The Outliers: The State of Colorado School Districts 2016 to see data on the state of academic outcomes for students in school districts across the state of Colorado. We created two versions of this ground-breaking report: one printable version with 32 pages jam-packed with data, and an expanded…