Manual was not a segregated school, so this was not a factor, but this decision changed schools elsewhere and had long lasting implications. That same year, Manual High School (Manual) on the east side of Denver was one of the schools Boasberg was referring to: the school still had educational gaps and many in the district and community were working hard to find resolutions. The result of this action spurred DPS to implement a segregation policy for school activities: "A segregation policy in the activities of white and Negro students of Denver schools has been adopted as the result of recent disturbances" (Rivers 1924, 1). ARTICLES ARTICLE 4 In 2012, Denver Public School District superintendent Tom Boasberg wrote to his employees about the state of their schools: "Yet there's a great deal of work ahead because our gaps still aren't closing at all. [Extracted from the article]