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Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado

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Melanie Asmar covers Denver Public Schools. Asmar previously worked as a reporter for Westword newspaper in Denver and for a daily newspaper in her native New Hampshire. She joined Chalkbeat Colorado in 2015.
Denver Public Schools will begin phasing police officers, known as school resource officers, out of its middle and high schools.
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Denver school board votes to phase police out of schools

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Denver school board Director Tay Anderson speaks at a press conference about removing police from schools on June 5.
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Majority of Denver school board shows support for removing police from...

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Denver Public Schools will begin phasing police officers, known as school resource officers, out of its middle and high schools.
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As protests continue, Denver to start conversation about role of police...

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East High School, Denver
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Two Denver students under quarantine after contact with family friend with...

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Behind closed doors: When it comes to seclusion and restraint, Colorado...

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Students gather for a rally while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence on April 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Students in Denver, Colorado are expressing similar fears around youth violence. Halfway through the 2019-2020 school year, five DPS students have been killed. | Jim Young/Getty Images
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Students, teachers plead for Denver district to do more in face...

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Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova leans down to watch a student work on math problems at Columbine Elementary. (Photo credit: Melanie Asmar/Chalkbeat)
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Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova’s first-year challenge: finding common ground in a...

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Tay Anderson hugs a supporter as early returns show him leading in the race for an at-large Denver school board seat. (Photo via Chalkbeat Colorado)
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New Denver school board member says he will sit during the...

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Denver Public Schools is revising its 8th-grade social studies curriculum after objections that it erased Native American perspectives in the 19th-century settlement of the West. (Photo from University of Illinois library via Flickr: Creative Commons)
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Denver to change curriculum that educators said ‘eliminates the Native American...

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Students at University Prep Elementary's flagship school in Denver. (Photo by Eric Gorski, University Prep is a public charter school serving students K-5th grade. (Photo by Eric Gorski, Chalkbeat Colorado)
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The growth and location of Denver charter schools, explained in 3...

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