DPS has not engaged the community adequately on the policy and the district’s “enrollment projections are flawed and ignore the influx of recent migrants to Denver,”  Movimiento Poder wrote in the June 13 letter, which was sent along with Advancement Project, a national racial justice organization.

Members of Movimiento Poder, which passed out flyers before the meeting, are taking issue with a process they believe will target Latino students. “These decisions are being made without the community really knowing what’s happening,” said Elizabeth Burciago, a community organizer with Movimiento Poder.

Movimiento Poder, which works to ensure DPS students are not overly disciplined, released a report last year that showed the number of tickets and arrests in the district had fallen for almost a decade, including after the board decided to remove SROs in 2020.

CIRC led a number of groups, including Movimiento Poder, ISAAC of Northern Colorado and Together Colorado, in calling the order “dangerous and inhumane.”

Some Colorado students say there’s not enough time to eat lunch at school. A new bill would reevaluate that…Anyelin told Denver7 she usually only has 5-10 minutes to eat once she gets her food.