DPS has released a New School Performance Compact Guidelines Proposal. Denver Public Schools, it’s is allegiance to the Portfolio Management/Reform Ideology, misuses the word “Compact” in their attempt to get buy-in for school closures. It is not an agreement entered in by anyone but themselves. After much pressure from the parents of Gilpin Montessori students, […]
NPR looked at school choice as it works, or doesn’t, here in Denver. By ERIC WESTERVELT Click links to Read and Listen to the whole stories: The Mile High Promise, And Risk, Of School Choice February 20, 20175:05 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Closing underperforming schools Color codes matter in Denver’s schools. And Gilpin Montessori, a […]
Dear Friends, Family and Neighbors, Thank you for your support as we all work toward holding DPS accountable to the communities they are supposed to serve. We had a good school board meeting on Jan. 19th, and revealed to the board the questions about Gilpin’s Data that DPS could not answer. However, the board made […]
On Jan 19th, Parents, neighbors, NAACP, DCTA and other community organizations asked the Denver Public Schools School Board to rescind their decision to close Gilpin Montessori. By their own process, the SQR data was changed to fail the school, with no reasonable explanation. The school is showing signs of improvement, but DPS data lags and […]
Gilpin Parents disagree with DPS’s falsified assessment of Gilpin – the School Quality Review (SQR) results were changed to fail the school – as well as the premise that schools “fail” on their own. DPS only gave Gilpin financial supports over the last two years (halfway into it’s turn around) and close it now that is […]
Many community organizations have joined Gilpin Parents in holding Denver Board of Education and Superintendent Boasberg accountable for their decision to close Gilpin based on an ideology of testing as the main or only metric to measure a school’s success and that “Failure” exists and is solely the responsibility of the schools themselves. Henry Roman, president […]
In the new norm [as of 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind] of “failing” schools, and privatization of education, DPS has once again chosen to close one and restart two more schools in Denver based on lagging test data. In the case of Gilpin, the school has turned around and is self-integrated and reflects the […]