Watch: The Colorado Sun discusses education funding
Colorado made significant headway in improving school funding last year when state leaders both paid off the budget stabilization factor and adopted a new school funding formula for the first time in three decades. But a dire state budget deficit has unraveled some of that progress, with lawmakers having to scale back the amount of funding they can give districts for next year.
Join Erica Breunlin, education reporter with The Colorado Sun, for a conversation with lawmakers and school funding experts about the challenge to route more dollars to Colorado’s most vulnerable students at a time a budget crisis has kept lawmakers from fulfilling funding promises they made a year ago.
Speakers include:
- Kate Bartlett, Superintendent of the Lake County School District
- Chuck Carpenter, Denver Public Schools Chief Financial Officer
- Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie, D-Democrat
- Colorado State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, R-Brighton and member of the JBC
