Diid school choice help DPS? This study says the 2007 switch 'helped students and strengthened the district.” .
Ever since Denver Public Schools decided to embrace school choice in 2007, a debate has raged over whether those reforms helped or hurt the district.by the University of Colorado Denver’s Center for Education Policy Analysis that attempts to answer that question found that, during the 11-year period it dubs the reform years, DPS saw its high school graduation rate increase, academic performance improve among students, and enrollment increase by more than 17,000 students.
“These findings are important because systemwide improvement in student outcomes of this size and duration is rare under any conditions, and especially so in large school systems with high levels of student needs,” the study states. Denver families already were choosing which schools to send their children to before the district launched its strategy in 2007. But, Baxter said, DPS was at a crossroads and needed to decide: should the district view school choice as a threat, or should it embrace it as an opportunity to grow?
Since 2007, 65 new schools have opened in Denver and more than 30 others have been restarted or replaced. More than half of the schools in Denver are either charter schools or semi-autonomous innovation schools, according to the study. By the 2018-19 school year, the last year examined in the study, overall academic performance at DPS exceeded the state average in both English Language Arts and math. Before 2007, DPS ranked among the bottom 10 districts in the state when it came to English Language Arts and math test scores. By 2018-19, the district was outperforming more than 100 of the roughly 180 districts in the state, according to the study.
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