DPS chief: It's time to focus on personnel - The Denver Post:
"Fixing what still troubles Denver Public Schools will require highly effective teachers in each of the district's 4,000 classrooms, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said Tuesday in his State of the Schools address.
But changing the system to reward the best teachers while helping usher out the worst will require reforms that may be difficult, Boasberg said.
DPS's problems are well-documented: Fewer than half its students can read at grade level, 50 percent graduate on time, and yawning achievement gaps remain between white students and their minority peers."
"Fixing what still troubles Denver Public Schools will require highly effective teachers in each of the district's 4,000 classrooms, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said Tuesday in his State of the Schools address.
But changing the system to reward the best teachers while helping usher out the worst will require reforms that may be difficult, Boasberg said.
DPS's problems are well-documented: Fewer than half its students can read at grade level, 50 percent graduate on time, and yawning achievement gaps remain between white students and their minority peers."