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• DENVER — School officials here said yesterday they plan to replace two Mexican flags removed from a local high school this week after a public outcry about the issue dies down.
  
  But Denver Public Schools spokeswoman Tanya Caughey said school officials planned to rehang the Mexican flags next to the U.S. flags once their safety concerns are eased.
  
  The uproar came after the Rocky Mountain News ran a photograph showing students in a social-studies classroom with the Mexican and U.S. flags displayed vertically and hanging side by side.
  
  Mrs. Caughey said federal law allows U.S. flags to be displayed in public buildings next to foreign flags as long as the Stars and Stripes sits on the right.
  "We're following federal law," she said.
  
  About 84 percent of the high school's enrollment is Hispanic, and 24 percent have limited English proficiency.
  
  The social-studies teacher who hung the Mexican and U.S. flags also teaches English to Spanish-speakers. He told the News that he wanted his students, most of whom were born in Mexico, to feel welcome.

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