Summary of Major Legislation
K-12 Education (2014)
2014 Summary of Major K-12 Education Legislation
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Staff Publications
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade (K-12) Public School Funding (2014)
This memorandum provides an overview of K-12 funding within the context of the state's operating budget. In December 2013, about $1.1 billion was transferred from the General Fund to the State Education Fund (SEF). The General Assembly has used some of this one-time money to set funding levels...
Staff Publications
Table 1 School Finance Funding Comparison with Passage of HB 14-1292 and HB 14-1298
School Finance Funding Comparison With Passage of Both HB 14-1292 and HB 14-1298, FY 2014-15
Current Law vs. Passage of HB 14-1292 and HB 14-1298 Combined
Staff Publications
Table 2 School Finance Funding Comparison with HB 14-1292 AND hb 14-1298
School Finance Funding Comparison With Both HB 14-1292 and HB 14-1298
FY 2014-15 vs FY 2013-14
Issue Briefs
Academic Standards and the Common Core (2014)
Academic standards provide a broad outline for what students are expected to know and be able to do at the end of each grade level, and for what students should know in order to be prepared to enter college or the workforce by the time they graduate from high school. In Colorado, academic...
Issue Briefs
Child Support Enforcement (2014)
Child support is a required payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child after a divorce or other dissolution of a relationship. This issue brief summarizes how child support orders are issued, details elements of child support enforcement units and various child support...
Issue Briefs
Statewide Student Assessments (2014)
Assessments provide teachers, parents, students, policymakers, and other stakeholders in Colorado's education system with a way of measuring student performance against state standards. First administered on a statewide basis in 1997 under the name Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP),...
Issue Briefs
Remedial Education (2014)
Remedial education refers to academic courses in higher education intended to improve the basic skills of new or returning college students, so that they are adequately prepared for college-level work. These basic skills courses are typically non-credit courses. This issue brief discusses how...
Issue Briefs
Colorado's K-12 Achievement Gaps (2014)
State law defines "achievement gap" as the difference in academic achievement attained by student groups on the statewide assessments and "growth gap" as the differences among student groups in the rates of academic growth.1 Achievement gaps are observable between racial or ethnic groups of...
Summary of Major Legislation
Summary of Human Services Legislation (2014)
This document provides a summary of legislation pertaining to human services considered by the General Assembly during the 2014 legislative session.
Fiscal Policy & Taxes
Estimated Value of School Finance Factors, Including Negative Factor FY 2014-15
ESTIMATED VALUE OF SCHOOL FINANCE FACTORS, INCLUDING NEGATIVE FACTOR, FY 2014-15
Staff Publications
School District Table (2014)
School District Table
Staff Publications
School Finance Funding Comparison Under HB 14-1292 FY 2014-15
School Finance Funding Comparison Under HB 14-1292, FY 2014-15
Current Law vs. HB 14-1292
Staff Publications
School Finance Funding Comparison Under HB 14-1298 FY 2014-15
School Finance Funding Comparison Under HB 14-1298, FY 2014-15
Current Law vs. HB 14-1298
Staff Publications
2013 CO School District Cost of Living Analysis (2014)
In July of 2013, Corona Insights was retained to conduct the 2013 Colorado School District Cost of Living Study for the Colorado Legislative Council. This study measures the differences in the cost to purchase a typical “market basket” of goods among the 178 public school districts in the State...