School squeeze hits Stapleton
Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by KB in Posts
I knew there was an overcrowding crisis in the Stapleton Schools but didn’t realize just how bad it was until I read this article. The schools are filled to capacity and Kindergarten classes have doubled in attendance from last year to this year. The building of a third school has been put on hold because the land is contaminated by asbestos. Due to the debilitating economy, Stapleton has seen a dramatic decrease of home sales these past couple of years, which means less tax revenues for schools. If I were a parent in this neighborhood whose child was attending school here in the near future, I would be very concerned. DPS is concerned with the Stapleton school situation and so are the hundreds of parents who moved there over the past few years. Who can blame them? Schools in this neighborhood were probably a big draw for a lot of these families. Hopefully, questions will be answered and problems will be solved sooner than later, or like one parent said in the article, people won’t be moving to Stapleton for the schools but moving away from Stapleton because of the schools.
Read the full article here: http://www.denverpost.com/education/ci_12986687
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