His mother, now retired, was an administrative secretary for the Denver public schools' environmental awareness program.

It follows on the heels of a similar effort undertaken by the Denver public schools.

"Realistically," he asked, "how many spots will there be in Denver private schools?"

In 1968, the year before busing began, 63,398 white students attended Denver public schools.

Indeed, for the first time since the early 1960's, some Denver schools have more that 90 percent minority enrollments.

The focus is on two pupils in Denver schools.

So the Denver schools recently ran television advertisements.

Ladies and gentlemen, graduates of the Denver public schools.

This year, 1,200 students from the suburbs are attending Denver schools.

And nearly 2,500 of 59,000 students in the Denver schools have Spanish as their first language.