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For Immediate Release Monday, March 18, 2013 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A+ Denver (303) 725-1151 van@aplusdenver.org Landri Taylor named newest DPS Board Member, steps down from A+ Denver Board Today, DPS School Board President Mary Seawell announced the appointment of Landri Taylor to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Nate Easley in…
Mark your calendars! A+ will be issuing a report on the state of high schools in Denver and AuroraPublic Schools in early April. Following the release of the report we will be hosting an Urban High School Summit on April 24th with leaders from DPS and APS to talk about the findings from the report. We will be…
Originally Posted by Denver Post on February 17, 2013. Copyright © Denverpost.com. Written by Van Schoales and Terrance Carroll. Read here. The future of Denver as a thriving and appealing urban center depends not on high profile projects like the light rail expansion and Five Points renewal project, but on something much more mundane, something you’d probably never…
Mark your calendars! …for February 20th, 5pm. Evan Stone, one of the co-founders for Educators 4 Excellence, will join us to talk about teachers making an impact on policy. E4E is a teacher led organization with chapters in New York, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles that works to ensure the voices of teachers are included in…
The purpose of this survey is to present a clear picture of where each candidate stands on key issues. As we did during the school board campaign of 2011, A+ Denver asked candidates (remarkably, 25 of them) to respond to a 31-question survey about their values and priorities. View press release
Originally Posted by EdNewsColorado on January 22, 2013. Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org. Written by Van Schoales. Van Schoales, head of A+ Denver, says it’s become so hard to get into Denver’s top schools that a change may be in order so that parents of means don’t have an unfair advantage over those lacking resources. In 2011,…
We want to wish all of you warm holiday wishes. 2012 has been a remarkable year for change at A+ Denver. We’ve grown from a staff of two to a staff of five with the latest addition of Sari Levy as Senior Advisor. We have engaged in key areas of reform, including Innovation schools, enrollment…
I want to wish you all a warm Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday. My family gathers in Los Angeles with old and new foods and friends. We always have traditional foods like roast turkey, mashed potatoes and Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry relish. This year, the Persian side of the family will add some tasty lamb appetizers to…
Beginning in 2010, The Evaluation Center at the University of Colorado Denver was contracted by Denver Public Schools (DPS), Colorado Education Association (CEA), A+ Denver, and Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) to provide external evaluation services to study the Innovation schools in Denver. The report of the first year’s study described the initial implementation of…
Originally posted on Colorado Public Radio, Oct. 19, 2012. Copyright © CPR.org Written by Jenny Brundin. In this era of high-stakes testing and high drop-out rates, public schools are focusing heavily on reading, writing and arithmetic. Some are worried that arts are getting short shrift. A report issued this fall showed that many Denver students,…