Dougco, state file voucher defense
Douglas County school district leaders have sent initial voucher payments totaling $158,519 to private schools on behalf of 140 students, according to court documents filed in a pending lawsuit over the district’s “choice scholarship” or voucher pilot.
- Read the 32-page response to motion for preliminary injunction and the 13-page motion to dismiss filed Friday by Dougco and state officials
- Read EdNews’ coverage of the original lawsuits, now consolidated, with links to court documents
Attorneys for the school district and the state on Friday filed a joint motion to dismiss the lawsuit and a
Manual expansion to 6-12 in works
A plan to expand northeast Denver’s venerable yet still struggling Manual High School to include grades 6 through 8 could be brought to the Denver Public Schools board as soon as October.
This means Manual, shuttered for low performance in 2006 and reborn the following year, could begin experiencing an attendance boom little more than a year from now.
“I strongly believe that a strong Manual 6-12 would be very good for that area of the town, for that region, and would complement well the feeder patterns in that area,” DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said.
The plan, still being fine-tuned by DPS staff, requires some other northeast Denver school reconfigurations as
