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Originally Posted by Chalkbeat Colorado on January 7, 2014. Copyright © co.chalkbeat.org. Written by Kate Schimel and Nicholas Garcia. Read here. The teachers had turned the classroom into an instructional war room. The walls were covered with bar graphs, hand-drawn in magic marker. Yearbook photos appended each graph, showing the faces of the students whose…
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Beginning in 2010, The Evaluation Center in the School of Education and Human Development, at the University of Colorado Denver, was contracted through a collaborative effort by Denver Public Schools (DPS), Colorado Education Association, A+ Denver, and Denver Classroom Teachers Association to provide external evaluation services to study the Innovation Schools in Denver. This report…
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Originally Posted by EdNews Colorado on December 18, 2013. Copyright © ednewscolorado.org. Written by Nicholas Garcia. Read here. Colorado’s Department of Education failed to create a rigorous application process and lacked oversight in a federal turnaround effort meant to spur improvement in the state’s lowest performing schools, a report from A+ Denver claims. In turn,…
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News Release Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A+ Denver (303) 725-1151 van@aplusdenver.org A+ Denver reveals disappointing school turnaround results under $58 million School Improvement Grant Effort Advocacy group pushes for more new schools and stronger accountability measures Over the past five years, the U.S. Department of Education has invested $4.7 billion…
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Looking ahead 2013 Game Changer Nominations It’s that time of year again! We are accepting nominations for anyone you think has been a game changer in public education during 2013 in Denver. Game changers are people at the school, district, or policy level that have impacted public education in Denver in a positive way in…
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Over the past five years, the U.S. Department of Education has invested $4.7 billion into turning schools around, including $58 million into Colorado’s lowest-performing schools. The government’s expectation has been that dollars be used for drastic school turnaround efforts. As President Obama described the problem, 12% of schools are responsible for 50% of the nation’s…
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News Release Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A+ Denver (303) 725-1151 van@aplusdenver.org A+ Denver releases updated brief on student achievement In an updated version of 2011’s Start with the Facts, A+ Denver recognizes improvement among low-income and non-low income students in DPS but raises concerns about the rate at which low-income…
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On November 13, the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs and School of Education & Human Development hosted a panel discussion called Turnarounds in Colorado–the Clock is Ticking. The event featured Van, who discussed the improvements that need to take place in the state, along with Peter Sherman, the Executive Director of CDE’s…
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Originally Posted by EdNews Colorado on November 11, 2013. Copyright © ednewscolorado.com. Written by Nicholas Garcia. Read here. The newly-elected members of Denver’s Board of Education have a long to-do list: closing the achievement gap, negotiating teacher contracts, approving school renewals, setting the budget. But no item may be as pressing as revising the Denver…
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Originally Posted by Westword on November 6, 2013. Copyright © westword.com. Written by Melanie Asmar. Read here. The four candidates supportive of Denver Public Schools’ brand of education reform swept the school board election yesterday. Barbara O’Brien, Rosemary Rodriguez, Mike Johnson and Landri Taylor will fill the four open slots on a seven-member board that…
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