Education
Dollars and Data: A Look at PK-12 Funding and Performance in Colorado
The Growing Strain on the Child Care Business Model
Potential Reach of Proposition 119 “The Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program (LEAP)”
Dollars and Data 2021
If Colorado is to have a substantive public discourse about how to improve educational outcomes, there needs to be a common understanding of how K-12 public education is funded in the state. This study analyzes statewide and regional trends in K-12 revenues and spending over the past decade to help ground conversations in facts.
$2.5 Billion in COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding to Colorado’s K-12 Education System
Trying to Fix a Broken Education Finance System
The current education funding system is laden with problems and inefficiencies that hinder schools from functioning at their highest levels. Increasing revenues without addressing the severe flaws in how the state allocates those revenues, as HB21-1164 does, is a missed opportunity to improve student outcomes.