During the board meeting, parents and students expressed concerns about children of color primarily being affected by the closures.
Palmer Elementary employee Allison Somers touches the cheek of her son, Tucker, 10, after he spoke to members of the school board during public comment regarding school closures at DPS Headquarters in Denver on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. Students, parents and community members implored Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education on Monday to keep open seven schools that Superintendent Alex Marrero has recommended closing next year in response to years-long declining enrollment.
The superintendent recommended the board permanently close five elementary schools — Castro, Columbian, Palmer, Schmitt and the International Academy of Denver at Harrington — and two secondary schools: West Middle and the Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design, which is a high school. “This breaks up a neighborhood and a community,” Sara Nakon, a Palmer parent, said of her school’s potential closure. “This is a Band-Aid. This doesn’t change the root problem.”in 2019 as birth rates plummeted and gentrification pushed families from Denver neighborhoods. DPS enrolled 88,235 students during the 2023-24 academic year.
Palmer Elementary parent Diana Kessel speaks to members of the school board on behalf of her two children and their community during public comment regarding school closures at DPS Headquarters in Denver on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.
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