Our Fight for Fully Funded Schools
After decades of underfunded public education in Colorado, our educators and students are facing another threat.
Due to restrictions on collecting revenue imposed by TABOR, this year the legislature will need to cut over a billion dollars of state expenditures.
Unfortunately, Colorado is once again looking to balance the state budget on the back of public education, despite overwhelming evidence that our schools are already underfunded by $4,000 to $4,500 per student per year.
Schools
Educators
Students
Affected by Cuts to Public School Funding
%
of Colorado's students attend public schools.
A cut is a cut—and our students pay the price.
- A cut is a cut—no matter how it’s framed, reducing school funding will harm students, educators, and public education in Colorado.
- The state also does not have the funding to implement the New School Finance Act (HB 24-1448) as intended, and some groups are pushing to remove key protections for districts that would lose funding.
- Colorado’s public schools are already underfunded by $4 billion annually—we cannot afford to lose more. Educators, students, and families deserve better
Text ACTION to 45955 to call your legislator and tell them No More Cuts!
emails sent to legislators with a clear and unified message from educators: no more cuts to our schools—our students and communities deserve fully funded public education.
Our Collective Plan to Win:
COMPLETE: Buy the BS Factor down to ZERO in 2024
In 2024, we brought the Budget Stabilization Factor down to $0, after decades of chronic underfunding and delivering a historic win for Colorado students and educators.
COMPLETE: Protect against devastating tax cuts in 2024
In 2024, we stopped devastating tax cuts at the ballot box that would have gutted public school funding.
Permanently raise revenue for public education in 2026
All of our work is helping to build the power we’ll need to win a major revenue measure for dedicated, ongoing funding for public education in 2026!
