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The Denver Plan, superintendent Michael Bennet's exhaustive strategy to turn around the city's public schools, is working. Yes, Denver still lags far behind state averages in reading, writing and math scores, but the urban district has posted ... read more

DENVER -- Heavy plumes of smoke were visible from downtown Denver Thursday afternoon after a playground caught fire. Denver firefighters said the playground outside St. Garden Place Elementary on Lincoln Street caught fire just before 5 p.m. The ... read more

We've witnessed too many false starts over the years in Denver schools to proclaim, on the basis of one year's dramatic test-score gains, that the district is about to lick its glaring achievement problems. Still, the latest results from the Colorado ... read more

We've witnessed too many false starts over the years in Denver schools to proclaim, on the basis of one year's dramatic test-score gains, that the district is about to lick its glaring achievement problems. Still, the latest results from the Colorado ... read more

With scores from the Colorado Student Assessment Program on her desk, restless principal Kristin Waters on Monday seemed to be in mid-school-year stride. Her Bruce Randolph School had posted terrific gains on the CSAP, and Waters was preparing for ... read more

Regardless of what method is used to assess Colorado's students, one constant remains. An achievement gap persists between black and Latino students and their white peers, and between rich and poor.  This year's CSAP showed some ... read more

After two full years of sweeping student-achievement reforms, Denver Public Schools recorded "historic" gains in the state's student assessment tests. Denver posted the biggest increases in math and reading proficiency among the state's largest ... read more

The CSAP will be tested more than ever in coming years, as it's plagued by complaints that students aren't motivated to ace it and concerns it doesn't help teachers  identify student needs until it's too late. Those problems, combined with ... read more

On Monday, three weeks before classes officially begin in Denver Public Schools, some 230 students came to Abraham Lincoln High School to get a jump on the often daunting freshman year. The school on southwest Federal Boulevard is one of 15 ... read more

  State test results released Tuesday show Denver Public Schools outpaced the state and every other metro-area district in gains made in reading, writing and math in nearly every grade in 2008. The urban district's jump in reading - nearly ... read more