Erica Breunlin

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

Colorado lawmakers adopted a school funding plan Wednesday afternoon in the final hours of the 2025 legislative session, setting up a new school funding formula that would solidify increases for most of the state’s 178 districts next year. Members of the House passed a school finance act with a vote of 57-8 on House Bill 1320 while reviewing a flurry of bills before the end of the regular session. The bill next heads to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk. Polis on Wednesday signaled support for the bill.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

Even as Colorado lawmakers button up a school funding plan for next year in the last days of the legislative session, they’re taking preemptive steps to protect the state’s education budget from future cuts. Legislators late Friday addedan amendment to the state’s school finance act, House Bill 1320, that is designed to set the state up to follow through on funding Colorado schools to the degree laid out in the state’s new school funding formula.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

Colorado lawmakers have largely tried to spare schools from major funding cuts while balancing a state budget weighed down by a $1.2 billion deficit, but there’s one tool they haven’t touched — and it would give them enough money to avoid education cuts altogether. That tool is known as the state’s permanent fund, also called the public school fund, which quietly stashes away state trust land revenue fueled mostly by oil and gas royalties each year.

2 weeks ago | deltacountyindependent.com | Erica Breunlin

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2 weeks ago | montrosepress.com | Erica Breunlin

The worry began with a set of library doors that refused to open and close, followed by windows that proved just as stubborn. Soon, cracks spidered across the drywall and ceiling, growing several inches long until school officials at Holyoke Elementary School in far northeastern Colorado had no choice but to shut their school library down.