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The Price of Higher Education in Colorado

Education
Dollars and Data 2025

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

October 09, 2025 Erik Gamm
Education
Discipline, Absenteeism, and Achievement: A Data-Driven Look at Colorado’s Largest School Districts

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

August 07, 2025 Cole AndersonJudah Weir
Education
Colorado’s Higher Education Funding Formula: Options for Reform that Balance Learning with Career Success

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