Tag: dps
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When will DPS board rein in district’s lawyer? | Jimmy Sengenberger
For years, critics have hammered the Denver Public Schools board for flouting Colorado’s open meetings laws — something I first called out here in 2022, months before their notorious closed-door executive session following the shooting inside East High School in 2023. Even with three new members, the board hasn’t learned. In May, they committed their…
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Judge handling Denver schools’ challenge to ICE policy changes course, sets hearing
The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools’ challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy for immigration enforcement announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district’s request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position just one week ago. The DPS lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem seeks…
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10th Circuit agrees ex-DPS employee failed to prove retaliatory firing
The federal appeals court based in Colorado agreed last month that a former Denver Public Schools employee failed to show how her termination was connected to her act of speaking out against racial discrimination. Barbara Lindsay worked at Emily Griffith Technical College and participated in the 2019 hiring process for a new school director. She…
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Auon’tai Anderson sits down with the Denver Gazette
Former Vice President of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, Auon’tai Anderson, took time to sit down with the Denver Gazette to reflect on his tenure in DPS and his future. Anderson is running for the Colorado House of Representatives 8th District seat, formerly held by Leslie Herod.
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Chris Anthony with McGlone Academy fifth-graders at Snobahn
Chris Anthony met up with McGlone Academy fifth-graders at the Snobahn Indoor Ski and Snowboard facility in Centennial May 23 for a skiing field trip before the end of the school year
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Blues legend, Otis Taylor, receives honorary diploma 57 years after expulsion for long hair
In 1966 two months before his graduation from Manual High School, blues legend Otis Taylor told school administrators he would not comply with school policy mandating short hair for male students, so he was expelled. After a friend noticed Taylor’s photo in a notable grads display, Taylor began to tell people that he had in…
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Blues legend, Otis Taylor, receives honorary diploma 57 years after expulsion for long hair
In 1966 two months before his graduation from Manual High School, blues legend Otis Taylor told school administrators he would not comply with school policy mandating short hair for male students, so he was expelled. After a friend noticed Taylor’s photo in a notable grads display, Taylor began to tell people that he had in…
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Denver school unveils book vending machine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College has a new vending machine that will feed their imaginations. The school unveiled a book vending machine Thursday afternoon. It’s the first-of-its-kind in the Denver Public Schools system. (Video: David Mullen/Denver Gazette)
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Denver Public Schools will grow locally sourced vegetables for students
Denver Public Schools’ Executive Director of Food Nutrition Services Theresa Hafner and Greenhouse Operations Supervisor Hayden Robbins discuss the goals of DPS building and operating a greenhouse to grow locally sourced vegetables for students. (Timothy Hurst/The Denver Gazette)