Now mostly free from the specter of COVID-19, Colorado’s public education system is still struggling: in 2025, enrollment fell for the fifth-straight year and student performance declined, reversing last ye

In 2022, Colorado’s legislature passed HB22-1376, requiring that schools submit student-level discipline data, including behavior violations and the consequences students received. The 2023–24 school year m

Colorado’s current funding formula doesn’t reward better performance in any substantive way. The lack of real financial rewards provides very little incentive for higher education institutions to move the n