Middle school students fill the seats of what could be an ordinary school bus — but as it starts up, the darkened windows become a continuous video screen with images of the Mars landscape passing by.
Schools/Education
NE High Schools Offer Many College Prep Options
College-bound high school students have a lot of options to learn about and choose from—and NE Denver students have five good public high schools to choose from.
APS Goal: Middle/High School Campus Next to Stapleton
Aurora Public Schools (APS) wants to establish a middle school/high school campus next to Stapleton on properties fronting 25th Ave. in Aurora.
Find the Immunization Rate at Your School
Starting this fall, parents who opt their children out of shots for personal or religious reasons will have to work a little harder than they have in years past.
DSST’s Bill Kurtz Named to Charter Schools’ Hall of Fame
DSST Public Schools has the best partnership in the country with the public school system, says Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
DPS Board Approves $572M Bond and $56.6M Mill Levy Override for Ballot
Denver voters in November will decide separately on two DPS ballot questions: a $572 million bond and a $56.6 million mill levy override to raise a total of $628.8 million.
New DPS Board Member for NE Rachele Espiritu
With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a business that works with community programs to make them more effective, Rachele Espiritu is ready to apply her skills and experience to DPS’ educational issues.
Denver Public Schools (DPS) Appoints New Board Member
Rachele Espiritu has been appointed by board president Anne Rowe to represent northeast Denver, replacing former board member Landri Taylor, until the fall of 2017.
Stapleton’s First Class Graduates
Seniors who comprised the first kindergarten class at Westerly Creek Elementary School when it opened in 2003, recently gathered for a reunion in the library of their former school.
Filling the School Board Vacancy
The largest and most diverse district in DPS, northeast Denver, was without a school board representative from mid-February to late April.
Sexting: It’s more common than you’d think
After seeing the number of kids going through the justice system, attorney Karen Steinhauser, started her free educational talk, “It’s not the 70s anymore.” The talk covers legal issues that affect young adults, particularly sexting.
Roots Elementary: Offering Individualized Learning
As adults, we like to say “age doesn’t matter” to avoid being stereotyped. To the people behind Roots Elementary School in northeast Park Hill, the same can be said for children.