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First-grade teacher Lily Li has dressed three students in costumes to portray characters in a Red Riding Hood-style folk tale - much to the giggling delight of the other 23 kids. A few minutes into the play, Li - an energetic and almost perpetually ... read more

Completing a fine-tuning session Tuesday, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education prepared for a final vote on a critical $454 million general obligation bond issue aimed at upgrading and expanding DPS schools. The board is expected to give its ... read more

As the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, a group of Denver high school students participating in a University of Colorado at Boulder partnership with Dillard University in New Orleans has visually recorded Dillard's reconstruction by ... read more

Denver's school board Tuesday finalized the amount and projects for a $454 million capital bond for the school district, which still must be formally approved by the board before being sent to voters in November. The bond would pay for maintenance ... read more

Without question, a major selling point in the pending agreement between Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association is its duration. By coming to terms on a three-year contract - the first time in nearly two decades that the ... read more

Completing a fine-tuning session Tuesday, the Denver Public Schools  Board of Education prepared for a final vote on a critical $454 million general obligation bond issue aimed at upgrading and expanding DPS schools.  The board is expected ... read more

A tentative labor agreement between Denver Public Schools teachers and the district would be a good end to an unseemly fight over how merit-pay money is divvied up. We hope both sides approve the deal. The proposed three-year agreement is more than ... read more

I just began my third year teaching middle school English in Denver Public Schools. It's been a roller coaster of a ride, the most difficult thing I've ever tried, and I am proud that I have chosen this path. It is a learning process, though, and I ... read more

 AT BOTH ends of the country, high-profile fights have broken out over teacher contracts. At issue in both cities -- the District and Denver -- are proposals tying big salary increases to improved student achievement. Some union leaders don't ... read more

All Denver Public Schools teachers would see a 3 percent raise this year, and some veteran teachers could see annual raises vanish under a tentative labor agreement unveiled Sunday. Teachers offered mixed responses to the agreement revealed by union ... read more