News Release
August 3, 2004
DPS, City Of Denver To Host News Conference About First-Day-Of-School Attendance; DPS "Opening Day" Is Monday, Aug. 16
Denver Public Schools and the City of Denver will host a news conference at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 5 on home plate at Coors Field to encourage students to be at school on "opening day" - the first day of school.
The first day of school is Monday, Aug. 16 for all early childhood education, elementary, sixth-grade and ninth-grade students. Tuesday, Aug. 17 is the first day of school for all other middle and high school students.
Speakers at the news conference will include Superintendent Jerry Wartgow, City Council President Elbra Wedgeworth, Mayors Office for Education and Children Director Maria Guajardo Lucero, Deputy Chief Michael Battista of the Denver Police Department, and Denver Board of Education member Elaine Gantz Berman.
Members of the media should arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 a.m. The news conference will begin promptly at 9 a.m. Gather in the Colorado Rockies main reception lobby just north of the gated clock tower entrance off Blake and 20th streets. Use the double glass doors to the right of the gated entrance. Limited one-hour meter parking is available on Blake St. Two-hour parking is available on 21st St.
Classes started on Monday, July 26 for 19 continuous year schools in Denver - Amesse, Barrett, Cheltenham, Colfax, Columbian, Del Pueblo, Eagleton, Fairmont, Ford, Harrington, Johnson, Maxwell, McGlone, Mitchell, Smedley, Smith, Valdez and Wyman elementary schools and Bryant-Webster K-8 School (eighth-grade will be added in August 2005).
Contact the DPS Public Information Office with questions, 720-423-3414.