Home - Updated 1/27/2012
January 2012: Two documents with Quick Facts on School Finance Formulas and Public School Trust Lands.
Augenblick, Palaich and Associates powerpoint Using Resources Applied to Measureents for Teacher Pay.
CDE's January 2012 Funding Comparison from 2011-12 to proposed 2012-13 funding is available here. Column AK is the projected change in funding in 2012-13. Column V contains the 2012-13 Estimated Negative Factor. We will post updates as they become available. CDE's Understanding Colorado School Finance and Categorical Program Funding for July 2011 is available here.
Survey Results: 3 Years of Budget Cuts to Colorado School Districts. At the end of 2011, the CSFP surveyed school districts regarding their budget reductions over the past three years (2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12).
December 2011: Key Findings in Lobato v. State Trial Court Decision by Children's Voices.
Presentation at the Colorado School Finance Partnership meeting on December 13, 2011: Litigation - Lobato Adequacy/Costing Out Process and Uses, by Children's Voices, CSFP and APA.
Lobato v. State decision in favor of plaintiffs, Children's Voices News Release: Unprecedented Victory for Colorado's Public School Children, read the Judge's ruling here. Skip to the Conclusions of Law here, pages 168 to 183.
CSFP presentations at CASB Conference:
- New Board Member Training, CSFP and Colorado Springs D-11
- Myths and Realities of School Finance, CSFP and Children's Voices
CAP4K Second Interim Costing Out Power Point, by Augenblick, Palaich and Associates and CSFP.
November 2011: Bond, BEST and Local Mill Levy Override election results for 2011.
Lobato Remedy Presentation from November 10, 2011. Remedy Components for Lobato (DRAFT).
October 2011: Presentation on Financing Colorado's Economic Future to CSFP by DU's Center for Economic Future. A narrated version of the presentation is on DU's Center for Economic Future's website.
Presentation on An Exercise in Uncertainty: The Outlook for the Colorado Economy and Education Budget to CSFP by Natalie Mullis, Colorado Legislative Council.
The Second Interim Report on the Analysis of Costs of CAP4K (Colorado's Achievement Plan for Kids - SB 212 of 2008) by Augenblick, Palaich, and Associations and the Colorado School Finance Project. The third and final report will be submitted in October 2012. The First Interim Report was completed in March 2010.
September 2011: Great Education/Futures presentation on Proposition 103.
Lobato et al. (Plaintiffs) v The State of Colorado, et al. (Defendants), closing arguments
From the Colorado State Demography Office: Demographic Trends: Understanding the Impact of a Changing Population on Colorado, Rural Consortitum, June 2011. The website for more information is www.colorado.gov/demography.
August 2011: Follow The Lobato Case (Lobato et al. (Plaintiffs) v State of Colorado et al. (Defendants).
2011 CSFP State Profile Data:Our annual profile information depicting changes in K-12 funding and counts (comparing 1992-93 to 2004-05 to 08-09 to 09-10).
- CSFP Profile Data: 2011 Highlights is a one page overview of all the state profile data, reported by CSFP, compiled by Augenblick, Palaich & Company (APA) using data from CDE. This one page document highlights areas of concern for K-12 funding.
- Table 1 - Enrollment in K-12 Public Education includes all students, Special Education, Free Lunch, ELL
- Table 2 - Number of Teachers and Teachers per 1,000 Students
- Table 3 - Average Teacher Salary
- Table 4 - Per Student Current Spending & Revenues
- Table 5 - Relationship Between Local Revenue for K-12 and Personal Income
- State Profile Data Table A
CSFP's Characteristics of Colorado's School Population: Two charts indicating the change over time of Colorado's K-12 population, 1) state student count, 2) Student counts for At-Risk, SPED, ELPA, ELL served 3+ years (no state funding).
July 2011: CSFP presentation at CASE Conference: Ups & Downs, What's Up with School Finance.
Final District Budget Cut Conversations 2011-12. From February 2011 through June 2011 the CSFP assembled district budget cut conversations from media reports and directly reported to us by districts.
- District Reported Budget Conversations
- Media Reported Budget Conversations
- Trends in district cuts
June 2011: Timeline of Colorado's School Finance & Education Reform 1980-2012 (Updated through 2011 Legislative session)
Growth trend in Colorado's K-12 homeless population and Free Lunch and Reduced Lunch populations.
U.S. Census Bureau data for Per Pupil Spending and Revenue 1) Spending Amounts by State and 2) three charts comparing Colorado to U.S Spending, Revenue and the historical trend of Colorado's ranking.
April 2011: Colorado Costing Out P12 Education, presentation by APA.
A Rural Needs Study: Improving CDE Services to Rural School Districts, prepared for CDE by Phil Fox and David Van Sant, Ph.D.
Link to Children's Voices for information on the Lobato v State of Colorado school funding litigation.
Note: Typically this page contains information from the last 6 months. We try to "roll off" information every month to our Historical Info page. The information is in chronological order, most recent first.