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Originally posted on DenverPost.com, May 25, 2012. Copyright © Denverpost.com
Read here. Written by Karen Auge.

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg has a problem that, a decade ago, would have been hard to imagine: northwest Denver parents in an uproar, fighting what they perceive as a threat to the neighborhood schools they champion.

The issue is that West Denver Prep charter schools wants to open what would be its second high school on the North High School campus. The charter's first is scheduled to open this fall in southwest Denver; the Denver school board is expected to vote in June on the application for a second West Denver Prep high school.