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Beacon Network Schools Fights DPS Revocation Of Innovation Status

The network is hoping to halt DPS efforts to bring Grant and Kepner Beacon Miiddle Schools back under district control.

A former student reacts to the DPS board's vote last month to revoke innovation zone status for Beacon Network Schools.
A former student reacts to the DPS board's vote last month to revoke innovation zone status for Beacon Network Schools. (CBS)

By Anna Alejo, CBS Denver:

A popular network of public schools -- stripped of innovation zone status by the Denver Public Schools Board of Education -- is now filing suit and asking the State Board of Education to intervene.

Beacon Network Schools is trying to halt DPS efforts to bring Grant and Kepner Beacon Miiddle Schools back under district control.

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