Denver’s Storied Portfolio District Is Starting to Act Like Just Another City School System
Denver Public Schools hosts endless visits from civic and district leaders looking for ways to reinvent public education. It has been a star portfolio district and a leader in charter-district collaboration. Over the course of a decade, multiple superintendents and board members have enjoyed strong backing to give parents freedom to choose outside their neighborhood […]
Three Ways Superintendents Can Increase Their Influence
Some years ago CRPE published An Impossible Job? A View from the Urban Superintendent’s Chair. It detailed the many things stacked against a district superintendent’s success, including politics, bureaucracy, union dominance of school boards, and short tenures. These findings still apply; yet now as then some local superintendents are making a success of the job. […]
