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Posted on 04-09-2009
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What’s next for our children?

Photos: Cristina Frésquez DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg discusses his plans to create positive change within DPS in a recent interview with Publisher Chris M. Frésquez.
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Editor’s Note: The following contains excerpts from the interview with The Weekly Issue/El Semanario’s Publisher Chris M. Frésquez and DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg. To read the interview in its entirety visit www.elsemanario.net.





Over the past few months there has been uproar within the Latino community over the Denver Public Schools’ hiring of the new Superintendent, Tom Boasberg. As concerns with his position and the future of Latino and other minority students within DPS have surfaced once again, I recently had an opportunity to sit down with Superintendent Boasberg to discuss the many questions and concerns the Latino community has had about the educational future of our youth in the DPS system.



Chris M. Frésquez: Reflecting on the high ratio of DPS’s Latino student population (55.36%), and their significantly high drop out rate – what are your plans to increase their odds of graduating?

Tom Boasberg: I think we are making some progress. There is some good news in terms of the proficiency, achievement and the graduation rate proportions. But there are still extraordinarily sobering numbers in terms of achievement gaps between Latino students and Anglo students – particularly the drop-out rates of Latino students.

I think that your question is a big question because it involves a lot of different things, so I will try to answer it a succinctly as possible. I think it starts at the beginning with offering opportunities for youngsters – to enhance the opportunities for four-year-olds to attend preschool and the opportunities for five-year-olds to attend kindergarten. So right from the beginning we can begin to narrow the opportunity gap that exists between low income students or students who may not speak English at home and more affluent students. We have increased our ...
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