Interim Supt. Of Denver Public School Named

DENVER, CO – By Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado. A retired superintendent who began his career as a teacher nearly 40 years ago in Denver has been named interim leader of the state’s largest district while the school board searches for a permanent replacement for outgoing Superintendent Tom Boasberg.

Ron Cabrera retired last year from the Boulder school district north of Denver, where he’d served as an assistant superintendent focused instructional leadership and equity. Prior to that, he was superintendent from 2008 to 2012 of the smaller Thompson School District in Loveland, which has about a fifth as many students as does Denver Public Schools.

The seven-member school board announced Cabrera as its interim pick Thursday on the shady front lawn of northeast Denver’s Stedman Elementary, where Cabrera served as principal for three years starting in 1988. His first day as interim will be Oct. 20, the day after Boasberg is set to step down after 10 years at the district’s helm. Cabrera, 63, will serve until a new superintendent starts, which board President Anne Rowe said will likely be in January.

Image: Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg tells Stedman Elementary teacher Dawn Romero that her former principal, Ron Cabrera, center, is the new interim superintendent. (Photo by Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado)

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