Education
![Dollars and Data: A Look at PK-12 Funding and Performance in Colorado](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/44851256_m-1080x675.jpg)
Dollars and Data: A Look at PK-12 Funding and Performance in Colorado
![The Growing Strain on the Child Care Business Model](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/feat_0722childcare.jpg)
The Growing Strain on the Child Care Business Model
![Potential Reach of Proposition 119 “The Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program (LEAP)”](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/84418280_m-1080x675.jpg)
Potential Reach of Proposition 119 “The Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program (LEAP)”
![Dollars and Data 2021](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/38133426_m1-1080x675.jpg)
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](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/85457567_m-1080x675.jpg)
$2.5 Billion in COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding to Colorado’s K-12 Education System
![Trying to Fix a Broken Education Finance System](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/105418680_m-1080x675.jpg)
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.
![The Price of Higher Education in Colorado](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/48149795_m-1080x675.jpg)
The Price of Higher Education in Colorado
![Digging Into the Data on Colorado Charter Schools](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/feat_0720schools-e1611163937218.jpg)
Digging Into the Data on Colorado Charter Schools
![Putting Students First: Strategies to Mitigate the COVID Slide](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/feat_0420studentstudy.jpg)
Putting Students First: Strategies to Mitigate the COVID Slide
![Dollars and Data: A Look at K-12 Education Funding in Colorado](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/feat_0819education.jpg)