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Dr. Alex Marrero, who was chosen by Denver Public Schools to be its new superintendent, speaks to South High School students after a press conference announcing his appointment on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.
After a months-long search, more than 7,000 survey responses, 50 focus groups with over 680 parents, teachers and school and community leaders, and a 6-to-1 board of education vote Thursday, Denver Public Schools has a new superintendent.
Bronx native Alex Marrero will begin his job overseeing Colorado’s largest school district with more than 92,000 students in 207 schools and over 14,000 employees on July 6.
Marrero brings with him a decade of experience as a guidance counselor, assistant principal and principal in the New York City Department of Education. In January 2020, he joined the City School District of New Rochelle as the assistant superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and became the first Latinx head of the city’s school system in S
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After carefully reviewing the published credentials of the three finalists for Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, we, the Congress of Hispanic Educators, are urging the Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education to reopen and expand the Superintendent search process. We ask that Interim Superintendent Dwight Jones remain the acting superintendent, at least through the end of the 2021-22 school year, until the reopened and expanded search is completed. Our reasons for this request are as follows:
• The Denver Public Schools currently serve over 90,000 students who are linguistically, culturally and economically diverse. None of the three finalists has been a Superintendent of a large urban district. One finalist has been an interim Superintendent of a 10,000 student school district. The other two candidates have not served in the position of Superintendent.
The district also says it will be taking a centralized approach to online learning in 2021-2022. Author: Nate Lynn Updated: 9:54 PM MDT April 30, 2021
DENVER Parents of Denver Public Schools students must decide soon whether to have their children attend classes in-person or virtually for the entire 2021-2022 school year, according to a letter from Interim Superintendent Dwight Jones that was shared on the district s website Friday.
The letter says district officials are optimistic that full-time in-person learning will be possible this fall, citing the encouraging rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. However, protocols including wearing masks and not gathering in large groups may still be in place at least to start the year.