With seven weeks left before the start of the school year, uncertainty over leadership at Denver Public Schools has some community members sounding the alarm.
Last month, Superintendent Alex Marrero said he had applied to lead Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida. Around the same time, he sent a letter to the Denver school board’s president alleging his employment contract was being violated and saying his current trajectory at DPS was “increasingly untenable.”
“To me, this is a 911 emergency,” said Theresa Peña, a former Denver school board president, a DPS graduate and the parent of DPS graduates…