One initiative will give $1,000 bonuses to teenagers who work 100 hours or more this summer and complete financial literacy training.
The program will train young adults ages 18 to 24 to act “as navigators serving middle and high school students,” according to state officials.
The contract provision in question has to do with the end of the so-called budget stabilization factor, which withheld funding from Colorado’s K-12 schools.
Education was a big issue in 2024, with a school funding formula rewrite dominating the last weeks of the legislative session.
The dissolution means the Luminary Learning Network will be the only innovation zone in Denver Public Schools.
The name change is also meant to strengthen the middle school’s connection with Manual High School.
The bill sponsor cited too much last-minute pushback from defenders of seclusion.
“We want to be a place that has a lab site that’s like, ‘We’ve figured this out. We have a cadre of schools that, in my most aspirational dream, have eliminated the achievement gap,’” one principal said.
In redrawing the maps, the board also considered the racial makeup of the proposed districts.
The board defended its “policy governance” model that limits information requests and funnels communication through the superintendent.