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DPS News Clips – 2010
DPS showing improvement in dropout rate
- February 5, 2010Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in enrollment and college-readiness numbers, and a decrease in its high school drop-out rate. Kim Posey reports: Watch Fox31 News video report ... read more
DPS, Colorado high school students making the grade
- February 4, 2010Denver school officials can barely contain their excitement over recent high school data showing hundreds more students enrolled, taking tougher college-prep courses and on track to graduate."This is among the most positive data we have seen in the ... read more
Denver bilingual school lauded as model at educators' convention
- February 4, 2010English is not the native language for more than two-thirds of students at Denver's Goldrick Elementary School, which usually is an indicator for poor academic performance.But Goldrick is beating the odds under principal Maria Uribe, who has ... read more
DPS: More on track to success
- February 3, 2010Superintendent Tom Boasberg calls it “some of the most encouraging data that we’ve seen in Denver Public Schools in several years.”He’s talking about a variety of indicators showing improvement – some slight, some ... read more
Pilot program provides shots to kids in Denver schools
- January 29, 2010The federal government on Thursday launched a new program in Denver designed to increase childhood immunization rates. It is the first school-located program in the country to offer vaccines to all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, ... read more
Griego: Seeing the radiance lost in shadow of student sorrows
- January 28, 2010There was a kid — correction, a young man — at Joel Valdez's memorial vigil a couple of weeks ago. He was among a group of North High alumni in the school cafeteria. They were waiting for the candlelight vigil to begin. These friends had ... read more
Denver Schools Hold Bake Sales to Help Haiti
- January 27, 2010Students in Denver Public Schools are cooking up a way to help the victims in Haiti. Tuesday morning many schools hosted bake sales to raise money for food, water and other much needed supplies. Watch CBS4 video report At Dora Moore School they ... read more
Teen-on-Teen Violence: a look at potential solutions
- January 27, 2010Project PAVE's Melina Fraga, and East High School Angels Against Abuse Club member Faythe Utsey were featured in a recently televised Studio 12 PBS panel. Tamara Banks hosts this look at national stories of teen-on-teen violence, and what local ... read more
Supt. Tom Boasberg: DPS doing a better job of keeping its kids
- January 27, 2010More kids are enrolled in Colorado schools than ever before: 832,368 to be exact, according to numbers released this week by the state Department of Education. And Denver Public Schools is contributing heavily to that growth. The city's enrollment is ... read more
DPS students sell baked goods to help Haiti
- January 26, 2010DENVER - More than a dozen local schools found a sweet way to pitch in and help the people of the earthquake-torn nation of Haiti on Tuesday. Watch 9News coverage of DPS fundraisers (4:53 minutes in video)Students from 14 schools across the metro ... read more
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