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It’s not new news in Colorado that in five years nearly three-quarters of jobs will require some sort of postsecondary education. Nor is it new news that Denver students don’t meet those credentials. We’ve written before that too few DPS graduates are headed to college and that even those that head to college aren’t prepared. Now that…
“School finance” and “resource allocation.” Two phrases that are probably some of the least inspirational in all of education. But now that DPS’ decentralization is the talk of the town, I’m curious what autonomy will mean for schools’ funding. When push-comes-to-shove, the success of this shift to a decentralized model depends on whether school…
The results of the first round of SchoolChoice are in for the 2015-2016 school year. SchoolChoice participation in Southwest Denver, with its two new shared enrollment boundaries, jumped dramatically from 67% last year to 91% this year. Yet, thousands of parents in the places with the worst schools still feel stuck because it is so…