The DPS Commitment vs. DPS Reality Series

This series focuses on commitments the Denver Public Schools (DPS) has made to the community, to parents and guardians, and to our children over the years. The reports typically leverage publicly available data to examine how well DPS has been keeping those commitments.

Issue #4: The 2019 Black Excellence Resolution: Is DPS Keeping Its Commitments to Our Black Children? (June 2025)

In 2019, the Denver Public Schools passed the Black Excellence Resolution (BER). A lot has changed since then, but has progress been made? This issue of the DPS Commitment vs. DPS Reality series looks back at the measures included in the BER itself to answer this question.

Issue #3: DPS’s “10% by 26” Commitment to Latino Students in Grades 3-8: English | Espanol (June 2025)

In its 2022-2026 Strategic Roadmap, the Denver Public Schools (DPS) committed to “improve Grade-Level Achievement average by 10 percentage points,” further noting “we are accountable for … accelerating the growth of some student groups by more than 10 percentage points” by the 2025-2026 school year. The data-based reality shows DPS is unlikely to fulfill this commitment to Latino students.

Issue #2: DPS’s “10% by 26” Commitment to Students with Disabilities in Grades 3-8 (May 2025)

Issue #1: DPS’s “10% by 26” Commitment to Black Students in Grades 3-8 (May 2025)