Alternative Compensation: Exploring Teacher Pay Reform in Colorado
This white paper examines the importance of alternative compensation reform, the state's role in compensation reform, issues to consider, and examples of alternative compensation systems in Colorado.
Alternative Compensation: Exploring Teacher Pay Reform in Colorado
Full-Day Kindergarten: The Need for Quality
This publication explores the benefits of full-day kindergarten, need for program quality standards that ensure full-day kindergarten programs are effectively using additional time, and considerations for school boards and administrators.
Full-Day Kindergarten: The Need for QualityChildhood Obesity in Colorado: A Growing Problem
Childhood Obesity in Colorado: A Growing Problem examines the impact of the childhood obesity epidemic in Colorado and offers recommendations for solutions.
Childhood Obesity in Colorado: A Growing ProblemUnderstanding Mill Levy Stabilization in Colorado
Without an understanding of the fiscal basis for the measure and the implications for our budget and our students, many Coloradans who care about education and the future of our state are left without the knowledge they need to fully understand the “Colorado Children’s Amendment.” Colorado fiscal policy is extremely complicated. This paper provides a general explanation of the mill levy stabilization proposal but does not answer all related questions about school finance.
Understanding Mill Levy Stabilization in ColoradoColorado Children's Budget 2005
The Colorado Children’s Budget 2005 is a comprehensive report on funding for children’s services in Colorado. This report provides a six-year funding history for more than 50 programs funded with state, local, and federal dollars. The Colorado Children’s Budget analyzes reductions in programs and services during the economic downturn.
The data in the Children’s Budget sends a clear message that Colorado is falling behind. Children today do not have access to the same opportunities they did just a few years ago. Funding has failed to keep pace with the rapidly growing child population and the rising costs of delivering services. Across the state, service providers have watched their budgets shrink and their service levels decline. They’ve cut staff, instituted waiting lists, delayed building repairs, reduced their hours, and, in some cases, closed their doors. Funding for some children’s services has declined more than others. Mental health, early care and education, local public health services, child care, youth crime prevention services, and income support for working families have suffered the greatest losses. Funding for children’s health insurance (Medicaid) and K-12 education, both of which have laws protecting their funding, have grown as more kids in Colorado enroll in public school and more low-income children enroll in Medicaid. Now more than ever, Colorado needs to reexamine its priorities and make the necessary changes to rebuild its social safety net for kids.
Colorado Children's Budget 2005The Economic Impact of Child Care in Colorado
n 2003, the Colorado Children’s Campaign commissioned a study to define and describe the relationship between early childhood care and education and the Colorado economy. Like other economic impact studies, we find that early care and early childhood intervention plays a significant role in Colorado’s economy by generating additional state revenues and employment.
The Economic Impact of Child Care in ColoradoColorado’s School Readiness Indicators: Making Progress for Young Children
Colorado’s School Readiness Indicators Project focuses on young children birth through eight years old. The intent of the project is to create a set of indicators to measure the readiness of the children themselves, their families, the communities in which they live, and the schools they will attend.
Colorado’s School Readiness Indicators: Making Progress for Young Children