Brad Jupp of Denver Public Schools has been tapped to serve as an advisor to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, according to an announcement Wednesday.
Jupp, DPS’ senior policy advisor, will advise Duncan on educator quality and effectiveness. His formal title will be senior education program specialist.
“I’m excited and it’s a great opportunity to go work for the president and the secretary of education at this moment in time. So much of what we have been doing in DPS has been predictive of where I think the country is going to go in four years.”
Jupp is on loan from DPS, so effectively he continues as a Denver school employee.
“I am going to miss like hell all of the people in DPS,” he said.
“Brad is a leader of tremendous courage, intelligence, and creativity, whose greatest strength is his unwavering commitment to the students of Denver,” said Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg in a release.
The district has benefited from his extraordinary work over the past 22 years. We are excited that the experiences and knowledge Brad has gained while at Denver Public Schools will now serve our nation and its schools, teachers and students.”
Jupp joined DPS in 1987 as a language arts teacher at Martin Luther King Middle School and from 1989 to 2005 was a leader in Denver’s teacher union.
From 1999 to 2005, he led the joint district/union effort to develop and implement Denver’s Professional Compensation System for Teachers or ProComp.In 2005, Jupp joined Michael Bennet’s team as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Superintendent.
Jupp’s wife, Chrisanne Lahue, who has been instrumental in reform efforts at Bruce Randolph School, will accompany him to Washington, D.C., and is currently seeking a teaching position in the DC public schools system.
Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367 or jpmeyer@denverpost.com
