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Pankovits for Colorado Springs Gazette: Assessments vindicate Denver’s innovation schools

  • August 23, 2023
  • Tressa Pankovits

By Tressa Pankovits

Denver Public Schools (DPS) was once a national model for school innovation and reform. District leadership focused on student learning and giving parents choices to find the best fit for their children.

Now, the DPS board is stacked with directors beholden to the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. It’s so ideologically married to the union’s self-interests — and so incompetent — that it continually tests the city’s capacity for outrage.

Keep reading in the Colorado Springs Gazette.

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