Chalkbeat:
The Denver school district once represented fertile ground for charter schools. But shifting politics and declining enrollment mean Colorado’s largest school district is becoming less friendly territory for the independent public schools.
“That trust and collaborative spirit that have historically existed have been called into question,” said Dan Schaller, president of the Colorado League of Charter Schools.
In recent years, the Denver school board has put time limits on opening new charter schools, asked tough questions about persistently low-performing ones, and gone toe-to-toe with the district’s largest charter network in a fight that ended up before the State Board of Education.
