Elsewhere, we’ve provided a visual representation of the fact that Colorado can’t sink much lower in higher education funding as compared with the rest of the United States. Here is a companion graph (click on the image to enlarge), showing that our competitiveness with our neighboring states on K-12 investment is just about equally grim.  (Note that Mississippi has passed us by . . .) Education Week’s annual Quality Counts state school finance data study is out, and the news isn’t good for Colorado.  Although Colorado earned an “A+” for funding “equity” (click on Colorado on the map found here), we earned a solid ‘F’ for “funding”.