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Federal coronavirus stimulus dollars will buoy the Denver school district’s $1.2 billion budget next school year in the face of declining enrollment and rising salaries, according to a proposed budget presented to the school board Thursday.
Denver Public Schools will avoid the kind of deep spending cuts it made this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to federal relief money and new local tax revenue approved by Denver voters, district-run schools are set to receive an extra $23 million next school year that principals can choose to spend on expenses such as hiring more nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, special education teachers, tutors, and academic intervention teachers.
Twelve metro Denver school districts but not Denver Public Schools say the costs of quarantines to students' social and emotional development and academic progress have been great.
A job or a civic duty? Colorado weighs paying school board members
A proposal working its way through the Colorado General Assembly would allow school board members to be compensated for their service for the first time. Author: Erica Meltzer (Chalkbeat Colorado) Published: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021 Updated: 2:54 PM MDT April 7, 2021
DENVER More than 60% of students in the Roaring Fork School District are Hispanic, but when Jasmin Ramirez was elected in 2019, she and fellow board member Natalie Torres became the first Latinas to serve on the school board.
Like all Colorado school board seats, it’s a volunteer position that comes with no pay. That sacrifice became even more challenging when Ramirez’s husband lost his income during the pandemic. At the same time, she felt like she brought valuable perspective on the issues facing Latino students from parents facing COVID risks at work to lack of internet at home that ot
On April 6, the Denver Board of Education announced that it had authorized an independent investigation into accusations made regarding boardmember Tay Anderson. On March 26, Black Lives Matter 5280 had released a claim that Anderson had sexually assaulted a woman whose name was not released; this assertion was followed by confirmation that Denver Public Schools had previously found that Anderson had used social media to retaliate against a whistleblower who alleged harassment by a former high school principal. Then came accusations made by six female former colleagues, who say that Anderson created an unsafe work environment.
Anderson has acknowledged the retaliation finding and apologized to the six women with whom he worked at Never Again Colorado, a gun reform organization. Now and in the future, I plan to engage and consult with restorative and transformative justice professionals to fully understand the harm I have caused in the past and to help ensure I do not repeat it,
EVSC names new chief diversity officer
EVSC names new chief diversity officer By Derek Mullins | April 5, 2021 at 10:49 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 10:49 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - On Monday evening, EVSC named a new chief diversity officer.
We’re told Rosyn Hood was most recently part of the Denver Public School System.
Hood was picked from a pool of around 60 applicants and will be replacing Dionne Blue.
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