Halted years of budgetary cuts in the Denver Public Schools
Michael Bennet, the junior Senator from Colorado, has served most recently as the Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools.
As Superintendent, Michael worked to improve student achievement and classroom performance, while also overseeing a halt to years of budgetary cuts in the Denver Public Schools.
Source: Biography on www.senate.gov
Jan 23, 2009
Oversaw investing $18 million in Denver schools & classrooms
As Superintendent, Michael worked hard to end the annual cycle of budget cuts at the Denver Public Schools. 2008 was the first in five years that the district did not have to cut its budget, and this year Denver was able to invest an additional $18
million in its schools & classrooms to enrich the academic environment for children. As a result, programs such as comprehensive Early Childhood Education have been enacted allowing over 2,000 four year olds to now have a full day Early Childhood
Education. Additionally, for the first time in Denver's history, over 90% of 5-year-olds have access to full-day kindergarten. These improvements are closing the achievement gap suffered by low-income children.
Michael, working with the Denver Classroo
Teachers Association, revolutionized Procomp, a system of differentiated pay that pays teachers more for driving student achievement, serving in a high poverty school, or bringing a special set of talents, like the teaching of math or special education.
Source: Biography on www.senate.gov
Jan 23, 2009
Sponsored bill discounting combat pay from free school lunch.
Bennet sponsored Military Family Nutrition Protection Act
A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the exclusion of combat pay from income for purposes of determining eligibility for child nutrition programs and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children.
