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CU Boulder is America’s druggiest campus? Spokesman offers rebuttal & 4/20 move update

By Michael RobertsDecember 5, 2011

Last week, in a post about the CU Boulder student legislative council passing a resolution to move the annual 4/20 event off campus, we noted that the university had topped a survey by Newsweek and the Daily Beast of the nation’s druggiest colleges. But CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard — who…

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Ricardo Flores Magon Academy: Read the lawsuit filed by former teacher Claudia Mitchell

By Melanie AsmarDecember 2, 2011

This week’s cover story, “A Hard Line,” looks deeper into complaints against a Westminster charter school called the Ricardo Flores Magon Academy. One former teacher is now suing the school, claiming she was discriminated against and then fired in 2009 after she called in sick with the swine flu, which…

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Ricardo Flores Magon Academy: Why was embattled school named for anarchist writer?

By Melanie AsmarDecember 1, 2011

This week’s cover story, “A Hard Line,” takes a look at the Ricardo Flores Magon Academy, a charter school in Westminster with both high test scores and a high number of former teachers, one of whom recently filed a discrimination lawsuit against the school. Among complaints voiced by some former…

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4/20 in Boulder: Student against moving the event calls opponents “rich, trust-fund a**holes”

By Michael RobertsDecember 1, 2011

The annual 4/20 bacchanal on the CU Boulder campus, dubbed an orgasm of cannabis consumption by NORML exec Allen St. Pierre, is a tradition many university officials would like to end — and student government leaders like Carly Robinson are heading in that direction, too. But at a forum last…

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Ricardo Flores Magon Academy: Will lawsuits facing charter school matter come renewal time?

By Melanie AsmarNovember 30, 2011

The Ricardo Flores Magon Academy charter school in Westminster gets spectacular academic results and has won accolades for its tennis and chess programs. But former teachers and parents say not everything there is working — especially the administration. How much will the personality clashes, high teacher turnover and multiple lawsuits…

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Photo: Smurf creeps on Legacy High School Marching Band in Thanksgiving Parade

By Nick LucchesiNovember 25, 2011

If you missed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday, you didn’t see Broomfield’s Legacy High School Lightning Marching band. The more than two-mile parade for Legacy High marked the first time in ten years that a Colorado high school marched in the parade. Big photo below…

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Thanksgiving play mentioning savages and God: Perfectly fine or over the line on race, religion?

By Michael RobertsNovember 21, 2011

Update: Arrowwood Elementary parent Rachel Drummond had objections to a play scheduled for her daughter’s second-grade class today, due to references to Native Americans as “savages” and a speech that overtly referred to a higher power. However, Douglas County School District public information officer Randy Barber believes it’s important to…

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Life Skills Center: DPS board votes to shutter alternative school, which vows to appeal

By Melanie AsmarNovember 18, 2011

This year may be the last for the Life Skills Center, a last-chance high school that Westword profiled in 2007. Last night, the Denver Public Schools board voted to shutter the struggling alternative charter school, which had been given a second chance in 2008 after facing the same fate…

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7 worst sex-ed clichés in Jefferson County’s Think Beyond Friday Night video

By Jenny AnNovember 17, 2011

Jefferson County Child Support Services has developed a new video intended to show that the department offers support for teen parents and children. However, most of the 21-minute long production called Think Beyond Friday Night is spent detailing all the horrors and tribulations of teen pregnancy…

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John Youngquist, East High School principal, resigns to take DPS principal development job

By Melanie AsmarNovember 15, 2011

East High School’s principal is leaving — though under less dubious circumstances than the principal at West High, who suddenly resigned earlier this year. In an e-mail to parents, East principal John Youngquist announced that he’s accepted a job to become Denver Public Schools’s Director of Principal Talent Development…

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CU’s treatment of Ward Churchill, Phil Mitchell makes it questionable employer, report finds

By Michael RobertsNovember 9, 2011

A new report by the American Association of University Professors’ Colorado Conference concludes that CU-Boulder’s dismissals of professor Ward Churchill and untenured history instructor Phil Mitchell were unjustified — but that’s not all. The document also concludes that its actions were so egregious that profs looking for a job should…

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David Sirota bars Education News Colorado reporter from Emily Sirota on election night

By Melanie AsmarNovember 3, 2011

Update about the Jimenez-Draper Carson race below. By now, you’ve heard that Anne Rowe and Allegra “Happy” Haynes won seats on the Denver Public Schools board, and that incumbent Arturo Jimenez narrowly claimed victory over reformer Jennifer Draper Carson. As for Rowe opponent Emily Sirota, you won’t read her reaction…

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West High: Meet the two new academies moving into the low-performing school next year

By Melanie AsmarNovember 3, 2011

West High School is not closing. At least not yet. That point was hammered home repeatedly today at a gathering of West High leaders, media and community members to talk about the future of the low-performing school, which will welcome two new academies to its building next year. “This is…

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DPS: Task force to survey community about whether to delay first day of school to avoid heat

By Melanie AsmarOctober 31, 2011

With the temperature dropping outside, it’s getting harder to remember when Denver’s children were sweltering in their classrooms two months back. But Denver Public Schools hasn’t forgotten. In fact, the district has launched a task force whose goal is to survey the community about whether to delay the first day…

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Emily Sirota on MSNBC to talk about “America’s Wildest School Board Race” (VIDEO)

By Michael RobertsOctober 25, 2011

Last night, MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell devoted a hefty five-minute segment (on view below) to the Denver school board race and candidate Emily Sirota. Why? O’Donnell followed an article from The Nation that called the contest the wackiest in the country. But it’s hard to imagine either…

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Michael Hancock launches Denver Education Compact to help improve public schools

By Melanie AsmarOctober 20, 2011

After spending the morning with W., Mayor Michael Hancock (who the former president said was classy), launched his Denver Education Compact, a committee of big brains set to tackle the city’s school system, which graduated just 51.8 percent of students on time last year. Hancock, who spoke a lot about…

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George W. Bush in Denver: Yes to educational excellence, no to politics and Gadhafi questions

By Melanie AsmarOctober 20, 2011

President George W. Bush was in Denver this morning, talking education with a group of political and business leaders at the brick headquarters of Get Smart Schools, an organization that trains principals for charter and innovation schools. Afterward, Bush made a brief (less than two minutes!) statement to the media,…

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Jennifer Draper Carson, Arturo Jimenez’s stand-in clash at DPS board candidates forum

By Melanie AsmarOctober 19, 2011

Tense exchanges between Denver Public Schools board candidate Jennifer Draper Carson and a stand-in for incumbent Arturo Jimenez marked a forum last night at the University of Denver, one of the last before the November 1 election. But while those two threw barbs, the debate between the other seven candidates…

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ACLU urges schools to adopt policy banning school police officers from working with ICE

By Melanie AsmarOctober 18, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped in on the debate simmering in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs over whether school resource officers should be allowed to collaborate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

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School discipline policies in Colorado too harsh? Lawmakers and advocates say yes

By Melanie AsmarOctober 11, 2011

School discipline, once considered too lax, has now swung too far in the opposite direction, say several state lawmakers and child advocates. As such, Colorado is one of a growing number of places rethinking harsh, “zero-tolerance” policies that lead to students being jailed for writing on bathroom stalls with marker…

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West High parents say they never received letter about principal resignation, meeting to discuss it

By Melanie AsmarOctober 11, 2011

As explained in the Westword story “Tough Subject,” the recent resignation of brand-new West High School principal Santiago Grado was sudden. To help parents make sense of the change, West High held a meeting on September 29 at 4 p.m. However, only one person showed up. Now, a West grandmother…

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Santiago Grado, former West High principal, says leadership differences caused resignation

By Melanie AsmarOctober 10, 2011

Santiago Grado resigned last month as principal of Denver’s West High School after only a month and a half on the job. School officials say he chose to do so after issues with his academic leadership were raised. But Grado tells Westword that it was a difference in leadership philosophies,…

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