Denver schools: Major overhaul is similar to others across the country

06-07-2011

By Joy Resmovits/Huffington Post

Northeast Denver's public schools will look unfamiliar when the area's 10,000 students return in August. Montbello High School, for example, will be phased out to become three different, smaller schools. Noel Middle School is on its way to becoming an arts program with a KIPP charter middle school also residing on its campus. These changes come as part of a larger restructuring: Denver Public Schools has already begun to implement a $17 million plan to completely overhaul the region's schools. Some schools hired new principals. Elsewhere, principals reconstituted their staffs and are now planning their curricula. New staff members are undergoing professional development. An independent contracting group is preparing to enter the schools. (more...)

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