Schools
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Revises School Closure Plan
The district twill prioritize shuttering five schools at the end of the school year, rather than the original 10.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero sent an update Thursday night to the Denver Public Schools community indicating he is revising school closure plans to prioritize shuttering five schools at the end of the 2022-2023 school year rather than the original ten.
Marrero's memo to families points out that in order keep under-enrolled schools operating and delivering basic services to kids it is necessary to subsidize the schools, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he suggested could be better spent hiring more faculty. Keeping the ten schools open is costing nearly $5 million in budget assistance, or the equivalent of 50 full-time teachers.
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