Oprah Winfrey announces $1 Million Donation to Denver, Colorado Public School

On the Monday telecast of her show, Oprah Winfrey revealed that she is donating $1

million dollars to the Denver School of Science & Technology charter school. The donation will help the school open three new campuses over the next ten years. The announced donation was made during Winfrey's promotion of a documentary titled "Waiting for Superman".

"Waiting for Superman", a film by Davis Guggenheim who directed "An Inconvenient Truth", is about the nation's lagging education system. The movie surveys "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes" and dissects the system and its many problems. Advocates for the film hope that it will evoke the same emotions for social change that the films "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Cove" evoked. Bill Kurtz, the Denver School of Science & Technology's chief executive says that "[t]he movie is going to strike a national conversation that needs to happen about the fact that we all need to do better to create high performing schools".

The Denver School of Science & Technology is a free, open-enrollment, public school. It was founded in 2004 and currently has 728 students in grades, 6,7 and 9-12. It is a liberal arts school with a focus on science and technology. The goal of the school is to prepare all of its students for college. With that goal in mind, the school requires that all students complete pre-calculus, five years of high school science, and complete an internship and a senior project for graduation. The school was awarded a silver medal in the U.S. News and World Report's issue ranking the nation's top high schools. The school's website, www.scienceandtech.org, provides the following statistics on the demographics of its students:

45% of DSST students are economically disadvantages

60% of DSST students are Hispanic, or African American

50% of DSST students are first generation college bound

Most students enter DSST at least one grade level behind in math and English

The attorneys at Frankfurt & Trani, P.C. applaud Ms. Winfrey for her very generous donation to Denver, Colorado's public education. We are a criminal defense and personal injury law firm providing service to clients in Denver as well as all other Colorado jurisdictions.

Oprah Winfrey announces $1 Million Donation to Denver, Colorado Public School

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