Its record mixed, DPS pulled both ways on reform INDenverTimes:
"Denver Public Schools’ record of dramatic changes to improve its lowest-performing schools has produced mixed results, though district leaders report hundreds of students are scoring higher on state tests.
Since 2005, DPS has closed nine schools, sending students to what district leaders promised would be better schools, and redesigned ten more, typically replacing the principal and most teachers. Another two schools are being phased out.
Friday, DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said one in five of the students who had attended the nine closed schools did not return to a district school the following year.
Of the 79 percent who did, however, their overall average state reading, writing and math exam results were better.
“We did see striking improvement,” Boasberg told members of the A+ Denver citizens’ advisory panel."
"Denver Public Schools’ record of dramatic changes to improve its lowest-performing schools has produced mixed results, though district leaders report hundreds of students are scoring higher on state tests.
Since 2005, DPS has closed nine schools, sending students to what district leaders promised would be better schools, and redesigned ten more, typically replacing the principal and most teachers. Another two schools are being phased out.
Friday, DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said one in five of the students who had attended the nine closed schools did not return to a district school the following year.
Of the 79 percent who did, however, their overall average state reading, writing and math exam results were better.
“We did see striking improvement,” Boasberg told members of the A+ Denver citizens’ advisory panel."