use it. But I do think there is some terrific news in the stimulus money package for Denver because the money focuses on two things: the first are high poverty skills – which are known as Title 1 – and the second is special education and special needs. We in Denver, have the highest proportion of students in poverty in the state and we really look forward to using that money particularly to meet the needs of our struggling students – through tutoring programs, through credit recovery programs, through differentiated intervention strategies based on struggling learners – and likewise. The special education money will be really important for some of our students who have some social and emotional needs that need to be met through counseling and special sessions. We are very eager to find out what the rules on that stimulus money are going to be because we want to begin to put in to work immediately in our classrooms.

CMF: When do you think you’ll have a written plan in place to carry out these changes?

Boasberg: This is part of the strategy we have been pursuing, I don’t think that we have put together any comprehensive planned document yet. Our hope is by the end of April we’d be able to go to the community with what we call an Action Plan for 2009. We will build on the Denver Plan, which we put in place three years ago and we are still very strong believers in. We’ve been working on that for three years we want to have an update – but what have we accomplished in the three years since the Denver Plan came out and what are our next steps? We hope by the end of April to go ...