News Category: Great Education Colorado
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From Well-Funded Halls to Bare Classroom Walls
By: Sree Sharma This image shows the importance of school funding on a students' future opportunities. By placing twoblack-and-white images side by side, I emphasize the difference between the outcome of a well-funded and poorly-funded school. The image on the left shows a positive outcome, with an engaged and confident...
Public Affairs Coordinator
Job OverviewThe Public Affairs Coordinator will play a key role in amplifying and supporting GreatEducation Colorado’s policy, advocacy, and communications initiatives. The ideal candidateis passionate about educational equity, highly organized, and thrives in fast-paced,collaborative environments. This role works across multiple campaigns and coalitions,helping to build local capacity and deliver strategic...
Open Arms
by Dikshya Gauli In a school where hearts are open wide, Inclusion's the tide, diversity's pride. A tapestry of voices, cultures, and dreams, A rainbow of faces in harmonious streams. Kindness and empathy, the golden rule, In this welcoming place, it's taught in school. No judgment or bias, prejudice erased,...
Keep Your Head in the Game
Between our state budget crisis and a dizzying barrage of federal Executive Orders and funding cuts, it’s hard to keep track of all the threats to public education. Here’s our summary: (TL;DR version: come to our Advocacy Day on April 16!) THE NOW This Year’s Budget: Last week, after months...
Money’s Chokehold on Education
This artwork portrays how money influences our education system. It shows that thequality of education often depends on one’s financial resources. The image challenges usto imagine an education system free from financial constraints, where opportunities are based on intellect and character, not wealth. Sarah from Greeley
ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE BLUEPRINT
And so now we're here, right? We have two studies. The question is, what are we going to do with them? – Bret Miles, Executive Director of the Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE) The last week of January -- the members of the House and Senate Education Committees met...
The Adequacy Studies are Out. Now What?
BLOG POST: The Adequacy Studies are Out. Now What? It’s the most important news in school funding in a decade: On January 3, the Legislature received reports from two state-commissioned studies outlining the resources Colorado public schools need if we want every student to thrive. (You can find the two...
Governor’s Budget: To avoid bringing back the BS Factor, we need to count less kids.
Though lost in the flurry of pre-election news and activity, the Governor's 2025-26 proposed state budget was released last Friday. We’re not going to sugar coat it: it’s bad news for schools. While the Governor’s Transmittal Letter to the legislature tries to paint a rosy picture of “historic investments” in...
The 2024 Election Results
In a victory for public education in Colorado, voters have defeated Amendment 80. Public education voters like you realized that Amendment 80 for what it was – a measure that would open the floodgates to mass privatization – and you rejected it at the ballot. Over the past few months,...