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Article: Gibbons: Education inequity 'appalling'.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2007
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Byline: Nancy Mitchell, Rocky Mountain News
Chris Gibbons, 29, attended private schools growing up in Littleton and Denver before graduating from Yale University with a degree in biology. He came back to Denver to run a program called Denver Summerbridge, a tutoring program for low-income kids that sparked his interest in teaching. Two falls ago, he opened West Denver Prep, a school that embraces uniforms, nightly homework and a culture of high expectations. State test results show the school outperformed district averages in its first year. So why is someone with a middle-class background and an Ivy League degree running a school serving mostly Hispanic, mostly ...
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Transcript: CHARTER SCHOOLS:BARBARA O`BRIEN
Congressional Testimony;
June 4, 2009 ;
700+ words
... ... like to briefly highlight a few examples: -- West Denver Preparatory Charter School: With nearly 90 percent ... high standards. As Founder and Head of School Chris Gibbons points out, West Denver Prep is ``all about college all of the time ...
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