Robert Garrison is a Colorado native who grew up in Montrose and attended Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. He is an AP award-winning journalist who joined Denver7 in August 2016 after working for several other stations across Colorado and Oklahoma over the past decade.
DENVER — An appellate court affirmed a decision by a federal judge last year, ordering Denver Public Schools to stop enforcing the district's ban on Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy Founder Brandon Pryor .Pryor filed a lawsuit against the district over the ban in 2022, alleging district leaders were violating his freedom of speech.
The district accused Pryor of “repeated abusive, bullying, threatening, and intimidating conduct directed at staff of Denver Public Schools” and cited Pryor’s social media posts.Judge orders DPS to drop ban on Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy founder Micah Smith 3:54 PM, Jan 02, 2023 In October of 2022, district leaders sent Pryor a letter informing him that he was banned from all school property.
“I feel vindicated” Pryor said in a statement. “I am glad that the retaliation that I experienced has been recognized. I look forward to continuing my work of building the STEAM Academy into a powerhouse school within DPS, just like the Historically Black Colleges and Universities that it is modeled on.”
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