The district received 31% fewer applications for 3-year-old preschool programs, 26% fewer applications for 4-year-old preschool programs, and 15% fewer applications for kindergarten. Box 500Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0500, Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. Follow whats happening in Colorado schools in our newsletter, delivered every weekday. There have been other exciting improvements to DPS SchoolChoice process, including the new School Finder search tool, the shift of the Choice window to February, and the introduction of a user-friendly online Choice application system. Children with siblings in a school get first priority, followed by all other students in the district. Check your districts rules and resources on the websites below. Meg Wingerter covers health for The Denver Post. Families who didnt participate in the first round of school choice in January and February have another chance. Districts also can refuse to accept choice applications from students with bad discipline records in their previous schools. Lawmakers have one week to get their tax relief proposal through the Colorado General Assembly. Some districts have multiple rounds of choice, while others have waiting lists for anyone who misses the sole deadline. Keeler: Avs fans, could we please skip Valeri Nichushkin, Nazem Kadri revisionist history? Families who didnt participate in school choice in January and February have another shot. If a school has more applicants than space available, students with a sibling in the school have first priority, followed by students who were reassigned by a school boundary change, dependents of district employees, and all other district residents. If a student is admitted to a school from a waitlist, the students sibling who remains on the waitlist will move above students without that priority. As Denver Public Schools embraced school choice, test scores improved For more information about the priorities or choice process, please visit schoolchoice.dpsk12.org , or call the Office of Choice and Enrollment at 720-423-3493. By comparison, school choice at the other transition grades of sixth and ninth grade was steady: sixth grade applications were down 4%, while ninth grade applications were up 1%. Denver Public Schools also saw a 3.3% decrease. I wish to relinquish my DPS school assignment and remain on the waitlist for any schools that I have already applied. The graduation rate would have remained below 60% without reforms, the study found. The Aurora school board voted unanimously to name Cherry Creek administrator Michael Giles as the districts next superintendent.
