DenverPost.com - Schools as drawing card

Allison Sherry, Denver Post staff writer, reported August 28:

Rather than waiting for a troubled school district to fix itself, nearly a dozen housing developers in Aurora are taking matters into their own hands, proposing a network of specialized schools - maybe even their own district - to lure tens of thousands of suburban homeowners.

The plans, which for the most part have conspicuously left out leaders from Aurora Public Schools, are part of a national trend of businesses doing an end run around traditional school districts.

Experts say it has the potential to drastically recast the future of public education...

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