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Issue Briefs

Overview of Online Education Programs (2016)

Subject

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

Agency

Legislative Council Staff

Published

09/22/2016

In Colorado, three types of online educational choices are available for students: online schools and programs; supplemental online education; and blended learning. This issue brief covers each type of online education, as well as recently passed legislation related to supplemental online and blended learning.

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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...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

11/03/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

10/09/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

10/09/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

10/07/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

10/03/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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),...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

09/18/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)

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...

Publishing Agency:

Legislative Council Staff

Date:

07/21/2014

Subject:

Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)