Micah Smith joined the station in December 2018 and is Denver7's Social Equity Reporter
DENVER – Denver Public Schools held a news conference on Tuesday to discuss the recently published findings of La Raza Report, an examination of the experiences of Latino students over several decades.
“The district finds itself with options for dealing with the past problems and the current challenges in serving our Latinx population,” said DPS Board of Education President Dr. Carrie A. Olson. “You look at the 1920s, for example, when the Ku Klux Klan was here in Denver essentially kind of terrorizing the streets; the 1930s when we had the redlining that was authorized by the federal government, and quite frankly, by entitled persons in the title mortgage companies. And you'll see when you read the report, the links that tie that to direct documents and the language that was used to discriminate,” Delcastillo said.
“The qualitative piece that really consumed about 60% of the report, we had 51 focus groups, over 600 folks in focus groups, and got a rich amount of material. We learned a lot,” Delcastillo said. “One of the things that we found is that especially with the immigrant families, they were very positive about the experience in DPS. They felt like, yes, we have a chance to have some input.”
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