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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 employees. “This is a dream come true,” Marrero, 38, told a group of students following a Wednes...

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 Hispanic Educators (CHE), dissatisfied with the three finalists after hearing from them during the for...

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 as follows: • The Denver Public Schools currently serve over 90,000 students who are linguistical...