ALL-STAR TEACHER AT DPS LEFT HALF-CENTURY LEGACY.(City Desk/Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: January 6, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Holly Yettick

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Then: Denver Public Schools had 42,835 students. Now: Denver's enrollment is 73,000.

Then: The district had 752 teachers earning salaries ranging from $1,320 to $3,040 per year. Now: The lowest-paid DPS teacher earns $31,320 annually.

Then: The year was 1926 and Aimee Weichsel Phelps was a teacher at Lake Junior High.

Dec. 29, 2002: Mrs. Phelps died at the age of 101. She was one year younger than the school district itself, which was created in 1902 by the 20th Amendment to the Colorado Constitution.

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