DECIDE may have been defeated this year, but the fight for better investment in our kids has just begun. Please add your name to Great Futures’ open letter to voters: we won’t let another year go by without giving voters a chance to improve resources for public education!

In a 35-30 vote, the Colorado House of Representatives failed to reach the two-thirds majority vote and the Senate never brought it to the vote necessary to put DECIDE (HCR 1002) on the ballot in November 2010.

In a 35-30 vote, the Colorado House of Representatives today failed to reach the two-thirds vote necessary to put DECIDE (HCR 1002) on the ballot in November 2010. Great Education Colorado — a member of the Great Futures Colorado coaltion, which proposed the referendum — issued the following statement:

A diverse coalition of public education supporters today called on the Colorado General Assembly to give voters the chance to prevent and reverse crippling cuts to Colorado’s schools, colleges and universities.

Left with no other options, the legislature is now considering a budget that will cut hundreds of millions of dollars from K-12 education – about $400-500 per pupil. Colorado already funds its schools $1,400 below the national average. Without action at the ballot, the 2011-12 budget will bring even deeper cuts to every public school [...]