Erica Breunlin

Denver

Education reporter at @ColoradoSun☀️BFFs with a beagle from AR. Full of curiosity, coffee and deadline-driven anxiety. Tell me your story and the moral of it.

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The Unaffiliated | Jared Polis’ new veto record — by the numbers

1 day ago | coloradosun.com | Jesse Paul |Taylor Dolven |Erica Breunlin

Gov. Jared Polis set a new PR this year — in annual vetoes. The governor, who finished his bill-signing tour Wednesday, rejected 11 measures passed by the legislature. That’s up from his previous record of 10 in 2023. A look at the bills Polis vetoed by the numbers:You can check out our veto list here. We’ve written a lot about the fractured relationship between Polis and Democrats in the legislature. The higher number of vetoes this year is a direct reflection of that.
“From pasture to table”: This Colorado classroom is a commercial kitchen where kids cut, sell meat

6 days ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

OAK CREEK — One by one, the woolly, wide-eyed lambs take their turn nestled up in the lap of a stranger, legs dangling in the air, waiting patiently on their backs for what’s to come. They lay mostly still and fall quiet, sometimes squirming, as students take their turn tending to each lamb, vaccinating and tagging them before shortening their tails and castrating the males.
Jared Polis signs new school funding formula into law, securing an extra $500 million for Colorado schools

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

After three decades of little change in the way money is disbursed to school, Colorado officially has a new funding formula that will go into effect in the upcoming school year and begin directing an additional $500 million to schools over the next seven years. Gov. Jared Polis made the new formula official Friday morning when he signed House Bill 1320 into law at Lukas Elementary School in Westminster against a backdrop of squirmy young learners.
Criticizing Clear Creek School District over spending on construction, teachers demand a pay raise

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY — Teachers and union members from a rural Colorado school district are urging their school board to approve bigger pay raises at a time they say the district is prioritizing construction projects over retaining educators while compensation lags behind the rising cost of living.
Law school applications are surging in Colorado this year, part of a nationwide trend

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

Applications at both of Colorado’s law schools have jumped by double-digit percentages this year in line with a deluge of law school applications flooding institutions across the country.
Thousands of vulnerable Colorado families can’t access child care after federal rule changes

3 weeks ago | kunc.org | Erica Breunlin

More than 5,700 children from low-income families have been shut out of child care programs across Colorado, where 23 counties have, as of May 1, frozen enrollment or set up waitlists for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, according to data from the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
Thousands of vulnerable Colorado families can’t access child care after federal rule changes

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

More than 5,700 children from low-income families have been shut out of child care programs across Colorado, where 23 counties have, as of May 1, frozen enrollment or set up waitlists for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, according to data from the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
School funding bill headed to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk after Colorado lawmakers approve spending plan

1 month 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.
Colorado lawmakers may steer more existing tax dollars to schools. Other programs could take a hit.

1 month 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.
Are Colorado lawmakers leaving money on the table that would prevent school funding cuts?

1 month 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.

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26 Jan 24

Many CO students are rethinking college with soaring costs and widespread student loan debt. This education park in the works near Colorado Springs would offer a different kind of campus where they could explore vocational training while in high school. https://t.co/lZDDiWABVl

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Articles

The Unaffiliated | Jared Polis’ new veto record — by the numbers

“From pasture to table”: This Colorado classroom is a commercial kitchen where kids cut, sell meat

Jared Polis signs new school funding formula into law, securing an extra $500 million for Colorado schools

Criticizing Clear Creek School District over spending on construction, teachers demand a pay raise

Law school applications are surging in Colorado this year, part of a nationwide trend

Thousands of vulnerable Colorado families can’t access child care after federal rule changes

Thousands of vulnerable Colorado families can’t access child care after federal rule changes

School funding bill headed to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk after Colorado lawmakers approve spending plan

Colorado lawmakers may steer more existing tax dollars to schools. Other programs could take a hit.

Are Colorado lawmakers leaving money on the table that would prevent school funding cuts?

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