As a leading voice in Colorado for improving the state’s K-12 education system, Colorado Succeeds partnered with Common Sense Policy Roundtable and the REMI Partnership to measure the value to the Colorado economy of improving the outcome for the state’s K-12 graduates. Along with the full economic report, we also developed a Business Guide for Colorado’s Next Governor containing information from a candidate and employer survey.
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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