Education

Parents rally against plan before board meeting and gather more than 5,500 petition signatures.

The Denver Public Schools board voted 5-1 Thursday to approve an agreement with a law firm called Holland & Knight to help negotiate the superintendent’s contract.

The Aurora Police Department installed Flock Safety cameras outside nine of the city’s high schools last year, a decision student advocates say raises questions about how law enforcement is using the controversial surveillance technology to monitor teenagers.

Denver Public Schools’ board will investigate allegations that Director Monica Hunter made antisemitic comments about a Jewish colleague, marking the third time in five years that the governing body of Colorado’s largest K-12 district has hired an outside firm to look into alleged misconduct by a board member.

Both Superintendent Alex Marrero and board President Xóchitl Gaytán accuse director Monica Hunter of calling fellow director Amy Klein Molk a “Zionist bitch,” according to written statements they provided to Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education.

The Boulder Valley School District implemented what is likely the nation’s first — and only — neurodiversity policy. Adopted by the school board in 2024, it commits district schools to using “strategies to affirm a student’s identity, rather than trying to ‘fix’ or ‘cure’ them.” The policy applies to all kids, not just autists.

Denver school board members Monica Hunter and Donald “D.J.” Torres on Friday requested an independent investigation into allegations levied against them by the board’s president — including the accusation that Hunter made an antisemitic comment about a colleague, according to an email obtained by The Denver Post.

Denver Public Schools’ elected leaders convened Wednesday for the first time since the school board president accused a director of making an antisemitic comment about a colleague.

DPS board President Xóchitl Gaytán has accused board member Monica Hunter of making an antisemitic comment about a fellow director.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools has recommended the district’s Board of Education close six schools in Northglenn, Thornton, Westminster and Broomfield — along with making other changes — to save $5 million annually in the face of falling K-12 enrollment.