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DPS schools that could close due to poor performance have high numbers of students of color, data showsDENVER — Almost all of the 25 schools that could face closure for poor performance under a new Denver Public Schools policy disproportionately enroll students of color and children from lower-income families, according to a Denver Post analysis of state data. The schools failed to meet state expectations on standardized tests, academic growth and preparing students for life after high school, earning them a spot on Colorado’s Accountability Clock. Sixteen of the Denver schools have spent two or more years on the clock, meaning they are ticking toward state intervention, or, in the case of Abraham Lincoln High School, already there. “It’s a call to action, as a system, that we need to be doing better in supporting our communities, especially our communities of color, our language learners,” said Joe Amundsen, DPS’s executive director of school transformation. Under DPS’s new policy — called the School Transformation Process — district leaders will consider shutting down a school once it has spent four years on the Accountability Clock. DPS officials have said the goal is to reverse poor-performing schools before they reach closure or state intervention by shaking up the building’s staff and operations. But DPS has long faced criticism for past policies of closing and restarting schools, which pupils, parents and community members said displaced students
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