Hispanic Educators News Today

Denver educator Martha Urioste died Dec. 8. She spent decades fighting for bilingual education and brought Montessori to Denver’s public schools.

As enrollment declines, Denver’s court-ordered bilingual programs for Spanish speakers face too few students at a growing number of schools.

Jenny Brundin/CPR News Dr. Alex Marrero, who was chosen by Denver Public Schools to be its new superintendent, speaks to South High School students after a press conference announcing his appointment on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. After a months-long search, more than 7,000 survey responses, 50 focus groups with over 680 parents, teachers and school and community leaders, and a 6-to-1 board of education vote Thursday, Denver Public Schools has a new superintendent.  Bronx native Alex Marrero will...

There'll be no honeymoon period for Dr. Alex Marrero.

The Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted Thursday afternoon to confirm the appointment of Dr. Alex Marrero as the district’s next superintendent.

Jenny Brundin/CPR News Dr. Alex Marrero, who was chosen by Denver Public Schools to be its new superintendent, speaks to South High School students after a press conference announcing his appointment on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Updated: 12:58 p.m. The Denver Public Schools Board chose Alex Marrero as its new superintendent Wednesday. Marrero will inherit a number of challenges beyond overseeing a large, diverse urban school district with more than 92,000 students in 207 schools and over 14,000 ...

Several community advocacy groups are coming together to protest the Denver Public Schools process for hiring the next superintendent.

The three finalists to become the next Denver Public Schools superintendent presented themselves to two public panel interviews last Thursday via Zoom, a singularly unsatisfying way to assess their qualifications to run the state’s largest school district, and their impact on a crowd. Listening to them answer questions, it was hard to get any real sense of what the Denver school board is seeking in its next leader, or what it will get by hiring any of these three educators. The Congress of Hi...

After carefully reviewing the published credentials of the three finalists for Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, we, the Congress of Hispanic Educators, are urging the Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education to reopen and expand the Superintendent search process. We ask that Interim Superintendent Dwight Jones remain the acting superintendent, at least through the end of the 2021-22 school year, until the reopened and expanded search is completed. Our reasons for this request are...