Discrimination Prevention and Response (DPR) Process

  • Denver Public Schools is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusiveness. We celebrate our diversity and will provide the necessary resources and supports to eliminate barriers to success and foster a more equitable future for all of our community members, students and employees. The DPR process is fully outlined in Board Regulation AC-R1. 

    District run schools, scroll down for report forms. 

    This site contains forms and resources for reporting, preventing and responding to allegations of discrimination, including allegations of unlawful sexual behavior. 

    • They are solely for allegations of potentially discriminatory conduct based on a person’s protected class.
    • DPS recognizes the following protected classes: race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, transgender status, religion, national origin, immigration/citizenship status, ancestry, age, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, disability, genetic information of an employee, and participation in a discrimination investigation.

    If you are unsure whether or not you should be initiating a discrimination report, please reference the Assessing the Situation Guide.

    Charter schools, please follow the guidance released in the 8/22/18 ChalkTalk:

    To report discrimination and/or harassment complaints, please continue to use your organization's own forms or these paper forms and submit them to your school and governing organization (if applicable). As a charter school, it is your organization's legal responsibility to investigate and document Title IX complaints. All individual situations, including student-employee and employee-employee situations should be handled by the charter school and its counsel. However, DPS will be providing a guidance document for charter schools and Alicia Franks-Gibson, a DPS Student Safety Coordinator, is available for thought partnership on situations involving students.

    District run schools, select the report from you need from the menu below. Note, you must be on the DPS network to access these forms. Log into VPN if you need to access the forms off-site. 

  • Student Complainant / Student Respondent

       Click the appropriate button below to access the report form

    Student Long Form

    Student Short Form

    Student Informal

    Once you have completed the investigation and Formal Process Report form, please complete the Summary Report Form (one page form) to share with the parents of involved students (redact as needed).

    Informal Resolution Process
    If in the investigation process you determine that an Informal Process is the best course of action (see Informal Resolution Process Guide, if necessary), only the Informal Process Report Form is required. 

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  • Student Complainant / Employee Respondent

    This section is to be completed by an HR Partner. If you have found yourself in this section and you are not an HR Partner, please contact your HR Partner right away and they will lead the completion of the Student Complainant/Employee Respondent DPR process.

    Unsure of who is your HR Partner? Find out here:

    Once the investigation is complete, the HR Partner must submit the Investigation Summary Report by clicking the button below.

    Discrimination Investigation Report Form: 

    Student Complainant / Employee Respondent Discrimination Summary Report

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  • Employee Complainant / Student Respondent

    This section provides resources and reporting guidance for incidents with an Employee Complainant and a Student Respondent. This form should be completed by the school DPR designee, with consult from SE&O Safety Coordinator as needed. The HR Partner will support with the complainant/employee side of the investigation. 

    If you are an employee who would like to report discrimination or harassment, notify your HR Partner, or if you would prefer, complete the Complaint Form.

    DPS Employee/Student


    Once you have completed the investigation and the Student/Student Report form, please complete the     Employee/Student Discrimination Report Summary form to share with the parents of involved students.

    Informal Process 
    If in the investigation process you determine that an Informal Process is the best course of action (see Informal Resolution Process Guide, if necessary), only the Discrimination Report Summary is required. This is the same form used to provide a final investigation summary if a full report was submitted.

  • Employee Complainant / Employee Respondent

    This section is to be completed by an HR Partner. If you are an employee who would like to report discrimination or harassment, notify your HR Partner, or if you prefer, complete the Complaint Form. 

    Unsure of who is your HR Partner? Find out here:

    Once the investigation is complete, the HR Partner must submit the Investigation Summary Report by clicking the button below.

    Employee Complainant / Employee Respondent Discrimination Summary Report

  • Other Complainant / Other Respondent

    If a community member is involved in a DPR situation as the complainant or respondent, use the forms below to document the situation and your response. 

    Other/Other

    Other2

CONTACT

NEED A CONSULT?

  • Incident Involving Students call:
    SEO Safety Coordinator
    720-425-4056

    Incident Involving DPS Employees Only call:
    Your HR Partner

    Incidents involving community member or both student and employees call:
    Discrimination Prevention and Response Coordinator
    720-423-3517