Core Value Award Nominations!
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11/27/18
Core Value Award Nominations!
Don’t forget: If you would like to nominate a fellow team member -- or several -- for our Core Value Awards, nominations are due Friday, Dec. 7.
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11/27/18
What's the Deal with Education Funding in Colorado?
If there’s one thing state legislators can agree on, no matter their party affiliation, it’s that the way schools are funded in Colorado should change. But the failure of Amendment 73—which would have increased taxes to fund P-12 education—in the 2018 midterms was a reminder that solutions are hard to come by.
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11/20/18
Schools more segregated than neighborhoods...
Between 1990 and 2015, Seattle’s neighborhoods saw a notable decline in racial segregation.
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11/15/18
AOC: Announcing the NEW Aurora Science & Tech
Today we officially announced our new DSST Aurora middle school, named Aurora Science & Tech, to the Aurora community. As you likely know, the school will open mid June 2019. Our kick off event today was attended by community members, APS staff and DSST staff and included remarks by Bill Kurtz, APS Superintendent Rico Munn and Peter Sherman, Founding School Director. But the highlight was definitely remarks made by Mohamadou Maguiraga, who lives in Aurora and travels an hour and a half to College View High School every day. Mohamadou, showing incredible courage and responsibility, spoke about the urgent need for a school in his hometown, as well as the plans that he and the other members of the Aurora Community Design team currently have underway to engage the Aurora community and power student recruitment.
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11/14/18
Want to be a part of DEI Affinity Groups? Here's how!
At DSST, we believe that equity is core. It is in our mission, drives our values, and is a part of why many of us choose this privileged work day in and day out.
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11/12/18
Educators: What should the next governor know about your school?
Jared Polis, Colorado’s governor-elect, ran on a platform that included funding full-day kindergarten and expanding access to preschool. He also inherits a state that has plenty of fiscal challenges. The same voters who elected him turned down a major tax increase that would have sent more money to schools, a tax increase he declined to endorse.
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11/08/18
GoFundMe for CV/Byers Family
Please support our colleague, Sheena Bustamante, as she mourns the passing of her 14 year old son, Victor.
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11/08/18
A 2018 EDlection Cheat Sheet
From coast to coast, our team was live Nov. 5-7, offering rolling results, insights, and analysis of 68 key votes that could drive education policy beyond 2020. (Follow our ongoing coverage and analysis at The74Million.org/Election; get the latest news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox by signing up for The 74 Newsletter)
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11/07/18
What 'blue wave' on Election Night in CO means for education
Colorado voters on Tuesday elected a governor who ran on bold education promises but rejected a tax increase that would have made it easier to pay for them.
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11/05/18
Teaching youth to have brave conversations
While many DPS students and teachers had October 19 off, 160 eighth graders and their faculty at the Denver School of Science and Technology: Stapleton spent the day having “brave conversations.” The local organization Brave Coalition brought together experts that “helped foster the conversations that help us work across differences and examine our own assumptions and biases,” said Principal Dan Sullivan.
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