- Economic Policy Institute with the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics- Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019 September 17, 2020
- YouTube report from TheDenverChannel.com– September 1, 2020
- Colorado Sun- Colorado lawmakers are looking at how to close a $3 billion budget shortfall. Here’s the roadmap. April 27, 2020
- Colorado Public Radio- As An Unprecedented School Year Comes To An End, The Summer And Fall Ahead Don’t Have Clearer Answers Either. April 23, 2020
- Center for Budget and Policy Priorities- COVID-19 State Budget Shortfalls Could Be Largest on Record. April 14, 2020
- Colorado Public Radio-Colorado’s Government Braces For Up To 3 Years of Cuts. April 7, 2020
- Joint Budget Committee Plan of Action Letter– April 9, 2020
- Colorado Public Radio- Colorado Governments Look At Cuts As COVID-19 Burns Budgets. April 7, 2020
- Colorado Sun- Supreme Court rules legislature can extend its lawmaking term after coronavirus pause. April 1, 2020
- Colorado Supreme Court Response to Interrogatory on House Joint Resolution 20-1006– April 1, 2020
- Colorado Public Radio- Colorado Legislature Could Extend Its Break By Weeks, But There’s Disagreement Over Whether They Have To Make That Decision In Person. March 29, 2020
- Chalkbeat- Colorado Department of Education’s Coronavirus Resource Page Money for technology, cleaning, and summer learning: What the coronavirus stimulus bill means for schools. March 27, 2020
- Colorado Sun- Colorado’s legislature will not resume on Monday as planned. It’s an open question when they will return– Colorado Sun, March 25, 2020
- Colorado Teachers’ of the Year Letter. March 23, 2020
- Press Release: JBC Action Postponed Until April 7 at Earliest. March 20, 2020
- Colorado Sun- Colorado scrutinizes oil and gas tax breaks as severance taxes drop and state budget gets tight– March 23, 2020
- Chalkbeat- How a coronavirus downturn could affect Colorado’s education budget– March 19, 2020
- National Center on Education and the Economy- Landmark Education Bill Goes to Maryland Legislature– February 27, 2020
- Colorado Department of Higher Education- Teacher Shortages Across the Nation and Colorado: Similar Issues, Varying Magnitudes- December 2017
- Education Law Center- Making the Grade 2019: How Fair is School Funding in State?
- World Population Review- Teacher Pay By State 2020- Interactive Map, Retrieved January 27, 2020
- News Tribune- Small school districts say move to 4-day week attract, retain teachers.January 26, 2020
- Colorado Public Radio- Low-Income Schools Need More Funding. Here’s How Colorado Lawmakers Want To Tweak The Formula To Make That Happen-December 17, 2019
- The Colorado Sun-Four ways that tinkering with Colorado’s school funding formula could impact state’s districts– December 16, 2019
- Chalkbeat- Fairer to whom? Colorado considers redividing the pie with a new school finance formula-December 13, 2019
- The Journal- School district, community respond to 4As failure– November 27, 2019
- Oklahoma Watch- State Defines Line It Would Draw for Allowing 4-day School Weeks– November 23, 2019
- The Colorado Sun– Part calculator, part crystal ball: Colorado lawmaker’s simulator testing tweaks to state’s school-funding formula – November 27, 2019
- The Colorado Sun– With Proposition CC’s failure, Colorado Democrats face a budget crunch in 2020. Here are their 4 options to address it.-November 27, 2019
- The Colorado Sun- Colorado districts aren’t getting enough state money to maintain schools and attract. So they’re turning to local taxpayers.-November 8, 2019
- Chalkbeat Colorado– ‘It’s huge for us’: More than a dozen Colorado districts approve school tax measures– November 7, 2019
- Education Law Center– Making the Grade 2019: How Fair is School Funding in Your State?– November 4, 2019
- The Colorado Sun– Lawmakers are finally setting out to retool Colorado’s school funding formula– October 29, 2019
- Harvard Political Review- When Five Days Become Four– October 24, 2019
- Colorado Politics- Colorado lawmakers request changes to school funding– October 23, 2019
- Colorado Public Radio- Lawmakers and Advocates Alike Want To Revamp The 25-Year-Old Formula Behind School Funding. But They Don’t Agree On How– October 22, 2019
- Press release from CASE, CASB, and CEA- Colorado public education associations support superintendent concerns about proposed changes to accountability system– October 3, 2019
- The Colorado Sun- Proposition CC explained: What it means to end the spending caps in TABOR and the money at stake– October 11, 2011
- Chalkbeat- It’s count day in Colorado Schools. Here’s why an accurate census matters– October 2, 2019
- AberdeenNews.com-Our Voice: Four-day school weeks interesting conversation to have– September 28, 2019
- EducationDive- Why colleges are struggling to graduate more teachers– September 18, 2019
- School Safety Performance Audit– September 2019
- State Auditor Highlights from School Safety Audit– September 2019
- The Colorado Sun: Colorado made kindergarten a priority. But when it comes to four-day schools weeks, lawmakers don’t see a problem.- August 29, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: In mostly rural Colorado, the four-day week has taken hold. But what do communities do with “Fifth Day”?– August 28, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: Colorado now has more school districts on four-day weeks than any place in the nation- with little research on the benefits- August 27, 2019
- TheDenverChannel.com: Colorado leads the nation in four day school weeks, but are they right for everyone?– August 19, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: Colorado voters leaning toward approving the elimination of state spending caps under TABOR, poll finds– August 14, 2019
- Chalkbeat: 4 new studies bolster the case: More money for schools helps low income students– August 13, 2019
- Colorado Public Radio: These 17 School Districts Borders Highlight Colorado’s Byzantine Funding Scheme– July 25, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: What PERA’s bad year means for public workers, retirees and taxpayers in Colorado, explained in Charts– July 9, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: Low pay. Cuts to PERA. For some state workers in Colorado, it’s like the recession never ended– July 8, 2019
- Chalkbeat: Colorado lawmakers are trying again to unravel a complicated school finance knot– June 26, 2019
- Colorado Department of Education: Kindergarten Guidance
- Chalkbeat: Colorado lawmakers are trying again to unravel a complicated school finance knot– June 26, 2019
- Post Independent: Roaring Fork teachers find pay raise in district budget– May 23, 2019
- The Journal: Montezuma-Cortez schools approve tax increase: November ballot issue would help increase teacher salaries– May 23, 2019
- Sterling Journal-Advocate: RE-1 Valley teacher base pay to increase to $33K next year: Board Approves MOU with staff, publishing budget for community review– May 21, 2019
- US Census Bureau: Largest Annual Increase in Public School Spending Since 2008– May 21, 2019
- Chalkbeat: Polis signs full-day kindergarten bill into law– May 21, 2019
- Longmont Times-Call: SVSSD teachers to receive average 7.6% raise under tentative agreement: School board to vote on new contract Wednesday– May 20, 2019
- Crested Butte News: School district and teachers reach agreement: Salary increases to be implemented next year– May 15, 2019
- Loveland Reporter Herald: Thompson approves 10 percent salary increase– May 15, 2019
- EducationDive: Perry Preschool study shows early ed benefits extend to participants’ children, siblings– May 14, 2019
- Greeley Tribune: 4 bills that could affect Greeley and Widsor schools this year– May 10, 2019
- Vail Daily: Vail Valley schools to add more cops, counselors: State, local funding increases slightly, but so will costs, district officials say– May 10, 2019
- Coloradoan: PSD employees cross fingers for cost-of-living raise, question whether it will be enough– May 8, 2019
- Colorado Public Radio: Plan For Full-Day Kindergarten In Colorado Awaits Governor’s Signature– May 1, 2019
- Economic Policy Institute, Center on Wage & Employment Dynamics: The teacher weekly wage penalty hit 21.4 percent in 2018. a record high– April 24, 2019
- Durango Hearld:Schools in Southwest Colorado see changes driven by Columbine– April 20, 2019
- The Hechinger Report: Districts in Debt: How rising teacher pension costs hurt school districts- States try to rescue pension systems from bankruptcy, leaving less money for classrooms and teacher pay, April 22, 2019
- The Colorado Sun: No Colorado School districts meet federal safety standards for behavioral health staffing, investigation shows, April 12, 2019
- Colorado Public Radio (CPR): What Does It Take to Get a Teacher Interested in Rural Schools? A Field Trip, Jenny Brundin, April 10, 2019
- Education Week: More Education Studies Look at Cost-Effectiveness, Sarah D. Parks, April 9, 2019
What’s more important to a superintendent: a math program shown to give a bigger boost to students’ math skills in the next two years or one that gives a smaller improvement but fits the district’s budget for five years?
Questions like that have become steadily more common as school leaders grapple with years of shrinking budgets. Still, it can be difficult to understand the expenses that lie beneath an intervention’s sticker price or the resources that may mean the difference between a promising intervention working on paper and working in the classroom.
- The Colorado Sun: Coloradans were set to get a property tax cut. Governor Polis is mulling a workaround to stop it, The Colorado Sun, April 9, 2019
- Market Watch: A surprising number of school districts have switched to a four-day week – March 2019
- National Education Policy Center (NPEC): Five Facts to Know About Class Size Research – March 2019
- The Colorado Sun: Colorado Rural Teacher Shortage – Teachers living in campers: How rural Colorado districts are coping with grwogin teacher shortage -3/7/2019
- The Washington Post: In a booming state, public schools grapple with asbestos, leaks and four-day weeks, 3/7/2019
- The Colorado Sun: The Denver teacher strike is over. Now lawmakers are trying to solve Colorado’s chronic education funding problem, 2/15/2019
- Denver Post: Colorado legislators plan to overhaul education funding system critics say disproportionately benefits wealthy districts. High-income areas with low poverty rates would replace state education aid by raising property taxes under bipartisan plan.
- Denver Post: Where’s all that marijuana money? – Three-part series:
- Where’s all that marijuana money? State’s pot dollars help schools, but maybe not as much as you think. Part 1 of 3.
- Video: Where has all the Marijuana Tax Money gone?
- Colorado communities pocket big bucks from legal marijuana, but threats loom for some. Part 2 of 3.
- Chalkbeat: Does money matter for schools? Why one researcher says the question is ‘essentially settled’ – December 18, 2018
- FutureEd: The school improvement gains nobody’s talking about, – December 17, 2018
- Denver Post: Colorado Economy; Front Range a GDP force, 10 of the states 64 counties account for 85 percent of engine, December 20, 2018,
- Coloradoan: Sacrificing Our Schools: These 8 school funding issues will challenge Colorado lawmakers in 2019
- Chalkbeat: Dear Governor: Here’s what Colorado educators want Jarod Polis to know about their schools. Additional information on our website about: Teacher Shortage, Supply, Retention
- KUNC, Morning Edition: Students, Parents, Teachers, Adjust to Denver-area School District’s Four-Day Week, November 12, 2018
- The Colorado Sun: Colorado is near the bottom of states in school funding. That’s why there are nearly 40 bond and mill levy override questions on ballots this fall.
- Chalkbeat: Colorado was never ranked 46th for teacher pay. Does this change the debate? May 1, 2018
- Bristol Herald Courier: Why More School Districts are Holding Class Just Four Days a Week, April 19, 2018
- Education Law Center, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, Is School Funding Fair 7th Edition 2018, February 2018
- Journal-Advocate: Merino, RE-1 Valley Superintendents Presenting on Ballot Issue, April 5, 2018
- Economic Policy Institute: The Teacher Pay Gap is Wider than Ever, published August 2016
- Journal-Advocate: RE-1 Valley School District hoping to get additional funding from state surplus, March 2018
- Denver Public Schools: Our DPS Weekly: The Time is Now to Better Support Kids, Teachers March 2018.
- Denver Post: Douglas County school voucher program now officially dead after case dismissed by Supreme Court, officials say… January 27, 2018
- Denver Post: Rural Colorado government services could retreat further because of forecasts pointing to more property tax cuts in 2019. The cuts caused by the Gallagher Amendment, a constitutional measure adopted in 1982 that limits the growth of residential property taxes.
- Mental Health America: The State of Mental Health in America 2018
- The Bell Policy Center: About that “Taxman” Podcast (CPR: How Douglas Bruce and the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Conquered Colorado)
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- Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness
- Chapin Hall – research center at University of Chicago
- NPR: New study finds that 4.2M kids experience homelessness each year
- Missed Opportunities: Youth Homelessness
- From Colorado Public Radio: How Douglas Bruce and the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Conquered Colorado
- Dana Scott (CDE) worked with Jennifer Brown from the Denver Post on an article illustrating the impacts of homelessness on students’ lives, including their education. The article also provides information on the McKinney-Vento Act and the educational rights of homeless students.
- Greeley Tribune: Colorado’s teacher shortage hits Greeley, Weld County schools harder than most, November 1, 2017.
- Report: The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy (ITEP) – Trickle-Down Dries Up, States without personal income taxes lag behind states with highest top tax rates.
- Colorado Public Radio: Half of Colorado School Districts have 4-day weeks. What’s the Impact on Students? Superintendent Jan DeLay (Re-1 Valley) speaks with Ryan Warner (Colorado Public Radio), article by Rachel Estabrook (CPR). Link to CSFP map of districts on 4-day weeks
- The Hechinger Report: While The Rest Of The World Invests More In Education The U.S. Spends Less– Years of disinvestment could affect the future U.S. labor force. September 18, 2017
- Colorado Public Radio (CPR): Colorado’s Rural Teachers Are Getting Pinched in the Teacher Salary Game – article by Jenny Brundin, September 14, 2017
- Denver Post: Where do schools spend their money? New site gives bare-bones look at finances – July 14, 2017
- Colorado Springs Gazette: New state website details Colorado schools’ revenue, spending – July 9, 2017
- The Coloradoan: 5 things to know about marijuana money and schools. April 13, 2017
- The Coloradoan: The negative factor: Why Colorado schools are crying poverty. April 4, 2017
- Denver Post: Supreme Court Bolsters Rights of Learning-Disabled Students in Ruling in Colorado Case – Andrew F v Douglas County School District 1. March 28, 2017
- Journal-Advocate: Colorado School Funding Facing ‘Scary’ Situation – recapping a presentation by one of CSFP’s board members / Deputy Superintendent/Chief Financial Officer of Colorado Springs D-11. March 24, 2017
- Video from KUSA 9News answering the question “I thought all that tax money from marijuana was supposed to take care of all this.”
- Why Pot Tax Can’t Save a Jeffco School
- Denver Post: Soaring home values mean Colorado homeowners get a tax cut. But local governments will be squeezed. January 13, 2017
- KUNC – All Things Considered: Lawmakers Float Solutions to Colorado’s School Funding Shortfall, January 18, 2017, an interview with Tracie Rainey (Executive Director, Colorado School Finance Project.