KDVR – invoice Detailing the state plan to finance public schools, the House of Representatives in Colorado on Thursday.
Teachers and legislators alike are happy that education discounts did not occur during a narrow budget.
“I want our professors to know that we have heard them. We do not cut public education, and instead we lead them to more dollars, in the semester, and make sure they have resources, employees, curricula, and technology; everything they need to help children learn.”
I felt comfortable because students in Colorado are ready to see more funding in the next school year than they did this year.
“The legislature has already come, and now we are in a position that will get at least the same amount of funding they did last year. Many will get more. This is much better than that we are in the place we started for the first time,” said Kevin Vic, President of the Colorado Education Association.
Work began in a new school financing form approved last year and will be implemented now over seven years instead of six years. The regions are scheduled to witness an increase of $ 257 million, with a total of more than 10 billion dollars to finance education as soon as the session ends. Financing reaches more than $ 410 per student, which reaches an average state of $ 11,863 per student each year.
The passage of the law comes after legislators have reached a compromise about the method of calculating the students ’average in the state. The ruler was originally suggested using one -year average to register students in each region, which sparked a large gathering of teachers in the Capitol earlier this year.
“The Mediterranean tool in our form was merely a way to help stabilize the financing of the regions. The ruler suggested canceling that tool and would have affecting our regions about 147 million dollars. We have maintained the average bill for the next year.”
While the legislators have maintained the average registration for a period of four years in place, it may change to an average mechanism for a period of three years if the state is in a better financial form. With the state budget leaders already warn that the biggest cuts are likely to come next year, the teachers said that the state needs to find a better way to finance education.
“I constantly refer to our current situation as hunger games. We really need things that citizens want to deserve here in this state against each other.” “I think Tapor [Taxpayer Bill of Rights] It is one of the things that we need to look at in terms of how to restrict our ability artificially even to grow from negative balance situations. “
McClaski spokesman also said that it was time for the state to have a conversation about Tapor.
While $ 10 billion appears to be a lot, teachers and legislators alike said that the country can work better. Colorado still decreased by about $ 7,000 annually in financing for each student compared to the national average of $ 18, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The draft law is now heading to the Senate to go to the legislative process in that room.