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Putting Students First: Strategies to Mitigate the COVID Slide

Apr 28, 2020

Experts are urging state officials and policymakers to start planning now to reduce the effects of the COVID Slide.

Dollars and Data: A Look at K-12 Education Funding in Colorado

Aug 28, 2019

This study provides analysis of how K-12 public education is funded in Colorado, trends in revenues and spending, and what teachers are paid.

Amendment 73

Sep 11, 2018

The $1.6 billion tax increase proposed by Initiative 73 will negatively impact the Colorado economy, cost private sector jobs, and place a significant tax burden on Coloradans.

What if Colorado schools were #1?

May 15, 2018

As a leading voice in Colorado for improving the state’s K-12 education system, Colorado Succeeds…

Douglas County’s Dramatic Shift–Treating Teachers Like Professionals

Oct 23, 2015

“The national research is clear: good teachers dramatically increase student’s achievement” while ineffective teachers stunt student growth…

Douglas County School District: The Impact of a World Class Education

Oct 18, 2013

In the summer of 1981, the U.S. Secretary of Education T. H. Bell appointed an eighteen member committee called the National Commission of Excellence in Education…

What Does Amendment 66 Mean for Colorado Taxpayers, Schools, and Jobs?

Oct 18, 2013

CU Leeds School of Business studies shows that without substantial improvement in student performance, Amendment 66 is a drag on the Colorado economy…

New study shows that without substantial improvement in student performance, Amendment 66 is drag on the Colorado economy.

Oct 9, 2013

Leeds School of Business Report Uses State-of-the-Art Dynamic Model to Determine What Impact Amendment 66 Will Have on Our State’s Economy…