Despite continuing to lag behind the rest of the state in the 2001 third-grade reading scores released Thursday, dozens of Denver schools showed huge improvement over time. In 1998, a frightening 11 percent of Ashley's third-graders were proficient or advanced in reading. That's a 273 percent jump.
Resistance is futile.
And she separated the quickest and slowest learners to minimize the amount of instruction going over or under anyone's head. Next was Jefferson County, with 16. None of which means DPS's work is done. Pueblo still leads in producing children with small family incomes but big CSAP scores. Thirty-two schools in the state with at least half their students getting subsidized lunches met or beat the state average of 72 percent proficient or advanced.