DENVER — The majority of educators who participated in the Denver Public Schools Foundation’s pilot Free Educator Housing Program have chosen to continue their careers with DPS, according to the Foundation’s follow-up survey.
The DPS Foundation partnered with a developer on the program, which provided free housing to 15 DPS educators for one year.
“Ninety-three percent of the DPS educators who received the housing have chosen to stay within the district. And why that’s so important is, these were early career teachers that received this housing, and some were even in hard-to-fill positions like special education or English as a second language teachers,” said Sara Hazel, president and CEO of the Denver Public School Foundation said…