Every Denver public school soon will be required to develop a plan to boost the success of African-American students by embracing their strengths rather than focusing on the challenges they face.
Thatap according to a resolution unanimously passed Thursday night by the Denver school board. The resolution, which would also require district employees to take training on implicit bias, was shepherded by Jennifer Bacon, who was elected in 2017 to represent northeast Denver and is one of two black members on the diverse school board. Longer-serving board members said it was overdue.
“With good intentions, we were battling the idea that singling out a group of students was not acceptable,” said Happy Haynes, who has served on the board since 2011. “We were always talking about, ‘all students, all students.’ ”
In doing so, Haynes said, “we lost sight of so many of our students. So I really celebrate this change in our thinking.”
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