This slideshow is too important to ignore, check it out to see how Colorado is doing compared to the rest of the US in per pupil funding, class size, and more.

Well, how did we get here? The falling red line on this graph documents how Colorado’s per pupil funding compares to the national average from 1972-2007.  With conventional wisdom in and around the Capitol that K-12 funding is “fine” and has been protected – perhaps too protected – by Amendment 23, this graph tells the [...]

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”.