Boardhawk: I recently filed a Colorado Open Records Act request with Denver Public Schools for copies of an internal staff survey on the job performance of Superintendent Alex Marrero. 

The CollaboRATE surveys have been around for many years, since the superintendency of Tom Boasberg (2009-2018). They are designed to provide supervisors, from superintendent to building principals, with constructive feedback on how their subordinates view their leadership.

It didn’t come as a shock that DPS turned down my CORA request. The rejection cited three reasons under the state’s open records law: 

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