The DPS Board has betrayed the public trust.
It's Time to Resign
The DPS Board has abdicated its most basic duty: keeping students and staff safe.
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Change for our children. Change for our staff. Change for our safety.
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Our Why
Who We Are
Resign DPS Board is a politically, geographically, racially, and professionally diverse coalition of residents and taxpayers from every walk of life in Denver. Each is fed up with the Board’s record on school safety, its dysfunctionality, incompetence, infighting, and commitment to mediocrity.
Our Mission
Secure the prompt resignation of all seven DPS Board members.

they have failed our students and staff
Why Demand the Board’s Resignation?

Abject Failure on School Safety
The DPS Board has been derelict in its fundamental obligation to keep our students, teachers, and administrators safe.
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Ignored Warnings from Leaders & Teachers
The DPS Board has repeatedly ignored school leaders' requests and warnings about school safety. And they have failed to enact practical solutions.
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Absent Leadership & Governance
The DPS Board has failed to manage its own Superintendent, its budget and itself. The Board has abysmally failed to provide leadership to the District.
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...We need leadership. Genuine leadership – not finger-pointing excuses, self-serving press conferences, or muddled and ambiguous promises of future policies. [T]he buck stops with [our] elected school board.
Boardhawk OpEd: As East High parents, we demand the school board resign. More than 1,600 others agree

Both lives should haunt DPS Board members who consistently rejected the advice of school leaders, neglected safety data and abandoned their legal responsibility for the safety of Denver students, teachers and staff.
Denver Post OpEd: Denver's Board of Education ignored safety warnings before East High shooting and should resign

Just when you thought Denver’s hapless, rudderless and feckless school board had run out of ways to display its ineptitude, it found another. It broke the law.
The Denver Gazette: EDITORIAL: Denver’s school board shuts us out

When students return to school this week, their Principals will remain limited in what they can do with potentially violent students inside their own schools.
Next With Kyle Clark: DPS principals limited in what can be done with potentially violent students

We are mounting an effort to force the Board to understand that the public has lost confidence in their leadership. We want to make it clear to all seven members that it is time for entirely new leadership. The seven sitting Board Members include Scott Baldermann, Xóchitl Gaytán, Dr. Carrie Olson, Michelle Quattlebaum, Charmaine Lindsay, Auon'tai Anderson and Scott Esserman.
Spread the word, share the petition, donate to the cause. We need your help.
We hope that the Board will listen to the public demand and resign immediately. It is their civic obligation. If they refuse, the other option is a recall process and/or an election process. Three sitting members - Anderson, Baldermann and Lindsay - will be up for re-election this November. The other four - Olson, Quattlebaum, Esserman and Gaytan - are eligible for a recall process.
Recall efforts, especially in city-wide contests, are expensive and a major volunteer effort. Gathering 10,000 signatures of interested Denver citizens demanding resignation by May 15th is the most straight-forward approach to getting rid of this disgraceful Board AND testing the waters for how prevalent this disgust is across Denver. We believe people from all backgrounds, all neighborhoods are fed up with the dysfunction of this Board, and we intend to prove it.
In the event we reach our goal and there is no movement to resign a recall effort could commence. Legally, it would have to be a separate entity that is specifically allowed to petition for a recall. Resign DPS Board is a 501(c)(4) non-profit that is allowed to promote issues of social welfare, such as highlighting the current crisis with the Denver Public School board and demanding the members resign. A Recall effort does not fall into that category and would require a new entity designed for that purpose. Our belief is that if we cannot gather 10,000 non-binding petition signatures for our Resign DPS Board effort within 45 days, then a Recall DPS Board effort would be very difficult to accomplish.
So, our strategy will remain highlighting the problems on the DPS Board and demanding their resignation. We have targeted media buys and rallies planned, signs and banners which we hope many of you will proudly display, and T-shirts being produced. We urge you to donate your time and money to this worthwhile cause to help keep our children and grandchildren safe and focused on education, not politics. If a recall effort becomes necessary then interested people can strategize, organize and make it a reality.
HOW WE WILL ENGAGE
- We trust the leaders in our schools. This group will listen to DPS teachers, administrators and students. Our district is large and diverse and we will listen in good faith.
- This is not about any one individual member. This is about DPS Board leadership as a whole. We will stick to facts and readily available sources in making our case.
- This group will focus its efforts entirely on replacing the existing school board. We understand this is only one piece of the puzzle and many other meaningful efforts must contribute to making our schools safe places for learning.
Fighting for our schools
Steering Committee
Kirsten Benefiel
Parent of students from Teller, Bromwell, DDES & East High
Lynne Ly
Parent of students at Polaris
Dorian Warren
Danny Foster
Cole and TJ Graduate; Parent of students from GW, DSST: Byers & East High
Robert Giron
Heather Lamm
Dora Moore, Morey and East High Graduate; Parent of students from Odyssey, Bromwell, DSST: Byers & East High
Sherry Ortega
Elizabeth Hebbard
Rev Fidel "Butch" Montoya
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Venmo: @ResignDPS (Venmo takes 3% so if you can use Zelle please do)
Zelle: 303-669-4762 (Resign DPS Board)
Check: Payable to "Resign DPS Board", 360 South Garfield Street, Suite 600, Denver, CO 80209
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