DPS "on-time" graduation rate rises to 4.3-point gain
Denver Public Schools have increased a four-year "on-time" graduation rate, posting a 4.3-point gain and graduating 175 more students last spring over the previous year, according to data released recently by the Colorado Department of Education. This brings the district's four-year rate from 51.8.... |
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DPS: $4.8 million to improve college-readiness
Denver Public Schools has been awarded a seven-year grant from the US Department of Education’s Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to support and improve college-readiness programs for students who attend schools in the Northwest Denver community. The $4.8 mil.... |
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Metro State College working towards HAS status
Metropolitan State College of Denver reaches record level of Latino undergraduate student enrollment —a 12 percent increase from 2010. This brings the College’s Latino enrollment to 18.2 percent (4,281 students) and overall students of color to 31.6 (7,443 students).
“We are making significant p.... |
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Millions awarded to HSI’s focusing on Latino students
More than 100 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) will receive a total of $107.4 million to strengthen and expand educational opportunities for Latino students, the U.S. Department of Education announced this week. The HSI program provides grants to make college more attainable for Latino student.... |
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Applications available for next generation women
After a successful launch last year of an effort to address the underrepresentation of Latina professionals in the nonprofit sector, the National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI), the nation's premier organization developing, connecting, and promoting Latina leaders, is recruiting for the secon.... |
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DREAM Act Sabbath
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and more than a dozen religious leaders representing a broad variety of faith traditions this week announced a DREAM Act Sabbath – an initiative enlisting churches, synagogues, and mosques around the country .... |
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DPS launches college ready institutes
Hundreds of Denver high school students are expected to take part in the district’s first-ever College Ready Institutes to be held throughout the summer at several DPS high schools. These school-based institutes are designed for students who are interested in building their knowledge of the skills.... |
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Students continue to fight Ethnic Studies ban
On the morning of May 3rd, a group of University of Arizona (UA) students and supporters disrupted UA Professor and Tucson Unified School DistrictTUSD Board President Mark Stegeman's lecture course in a drastic move to draw attention to the TUSD Board's fateful vote on Ethnic Studies which was sch.... |
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Going Hungry for Ethnic Studies
Hungry students and their supporters sit for the seventh day in front of University of California at Berkeley’s California Hall, after a futile meeting with University Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. The students asked Birgeneau yesterday to reinstate fired ethnic-studies staff members.
“We're stil.... |
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‘We will not give up on tuition equity’
Colorado Republicans walked away from $4 million a year for higher education and failed thousands of students. The House education committee voted on party lines to kill Colorado ASSET which was projected to help hundreds of students a year afford a higher education while putting millions of dolla.... |
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Bennet sends letter in support of DREAM Act kids
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 21 fellow senators last week, in a letter to President Obama in support of kids who fall under the DREAM Act. Bennet and his colleagues urged the President to use his authority to grant relief from deportation to young people eligible for the Development.... |
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Improving Opportunities
On March 28th, President Obama participated in a town hall meeting on education hosted by Univision at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, DC. The town hall provided the President an opportunity to talk with students, parents and teachers about the importance of out-educating our global .... |
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Buying College: What Consumers Need to Know
“If only I’d known then what I know now” seems to be a common lament from college graduates these days. We hear it from students who attended for-profit institutions only to find that their skills are not marketable but their debt will haunt them for the next 30 years. But we also hear it from law.... |
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Racial profiling, illegal search at issue in ACLU lawsuit
In a lawsuit filed in federal court March 28, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado alleged that the Denver Police Department engaged in racial profiling and biased policing when it targeted Denver resident Jose Sanchez, detained him without reasonable suspicion, and falsely.... |
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The Story of César Estrada Chávez
The story of César Estrada Chávez begins near Yuma, Arizona. César was born on March 31, 1927. He was named after his grandfather, Cesario. Regrettably, the story of Chávez also ends near Yuma, Arizona. He passed away on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, a small village near Yuma, Arizona.
He learned .... |
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