Denver’s school board voted Thursday against reinstating a middle school principal who was fired after publicly speaking out about the district’s educators being required to check students for weapons.
Former McAuliffe International School Principal Kurt Dennis is defending his decision to place students in a room alone to calm down, saying that both the space and method were “district-sanctioned.”
Denver Public Schools put the interim principal of McAuliffe International School on paid leave Monday, days after the district announced its investigation into the use of a locked "seclusion room" at the middle school as a form of discipline for students.