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title: "Carroll: DPS must keep its promise to 500 families"
description: "NEWS:Denver Post: And open a high school in far northeast Denver."
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# [Carroll: DPS must keep its promise to 500 families](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/carroll-dps-must-keep-its-promise-to-500-families)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 10/22/20

Denver Post: 

We interrupt this season’s glut of election coverage to bring you an important public service message: The Denver School Board appears poised to break faith with nearly 500 families, overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic, who were promised a DSST high school to complement the middle school their children are now attending in far northeast Denver.

The vote is scheduled Oct. 22, and prospects for the high school seem bleak based on comments and actions of board members in recent weeks. An era of exciting educational innovation in Denver has truly passed — last year’s school board election sealed its fate — but we are about to discover how far some board members intend to go in enforcing their skepticism of public-school choice and data-driven performance standards.

[Read the full story here](https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/15/carroll-dps-must-keep-its-promise-to-500-families-and-open-a-dsst-high-school-in-far-northeast-denver/). 

 

 

 

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