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Coffee Break: Colorado Ed Reformer Mike Johnston on DeVos, DACA, and his future in the Democratic Party
By Katelyn Silva Mike Johnston was a Teach For America corps member in the Mississippi Delta, a principal for six years in Colorado, and served as a senior education advisor to President Obama. He just wrapped his tenure in the Colorado...
Coffee Break: Denver Refugee Student Zahra Abdulameer on the Power of Inclusivity and Diversity
Zahra Abdulameer and her family came to Denver in 2009 from Iraq. She’s one of many refugee students who attend Denver’s South High School—a “welcoming center” school for refugees. She’s one of the students who talked with the leadership of...
A Liberal’s Confession on Vouchers
As a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and as someone who worked in city school districts for a long time, I have a confession to make: I’m not against vouchers. I’m not entirely for them, either. But I am open-minded. I’m somewhere in...
On the Wire…Week of January 30
Many city school districts are part of the “sanctuary city” services that offer special outreach and services to immigrants and refugees. So it has been a tense and anxious time in those districts, especially with last weekend’s executive order targeting...