Colorado leaders are promising to stop underfunding local schools for the first time in 15 years.
This year, the $9 billion K-12 budget is $141 million short of fully funding schools.Yes, but:
Even if lawmakers meet their pledge next year, it won't backfill the more than $10 billion school districts have lost since 2009.For years, Colorado policymakers have toyed with changes to how schools are funded to make them more equitable. The state's teachers' union considers the elimination of the negative factor a first step toward a much-needed broader overhaul.
"Until such change is enacted, our schools, our educators, our students, and all Coloradans will continue to be short-changed."
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