Consensus vs. “Buy-In”
OCTOBER 13, 2010
On Tuesday night, I attended a heated public meeting to discuss a planned overhaul of many of the schools in Far Northeast Denver. The meeting’s organizers– Denver Public Schools and their related civic organization, A+ Denver– billed the event as a way to roll out their proposed plans for six area schools, and “get community input” regarding those plans. The current proposal would mean big changes for the area’s schools, which you can read more about here.
I won’t delve deeply into the pros and cons of the different school options here. Though I generally like what I’ve heard about DCIS, and was quite impressed when I visited SOAR I a few weeks ago, there is a history of serious problems with school turnarounds in Denver and