Melanie Asmar

Melanie Asmar

Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat Colorado

Melanie Asmar covers Denver Public Schools. Write her at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

Four seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for election in November.

Half of the displaced students will go to higher-performing schools, and a significant number are moving from district-run schools to charter schools.

Ten Denver schools with low enrollment will close or partially close at the end of this school year.

Seclusion is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone. Parents say it is misused and traumatic, while educators describe it as a necessary last resort.

However, Commissioner Susana Córdova said she will sign a new assurance that the state is in compliance with Title VI, which bans discrimination on the basis of race.

Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’

'It’s becoming a bigger and bigger issue for school districts in rural communities to be able to hire and retain folks,' one of the report authors said.

The Trump administration has given states 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in practices that promote DEI — or lose their federal funding.