Every student deserves a safe place to learn. Not sometimes. Not conditionally. Always.

https://edtrust.org/blog/when-schools-stop-feeling-safe-the-hidden-learning-crisis-driven-by-immigration-enforcement/

You should message Katie Wilberding Cross. She’s heading up the Colorado Community Schools Coalition.

Madeus Frandina, the Editor-in-Chief of the Arvada Westwind, tells a story, makes a case, and articulates who pays the price for an inadequate school funding system in this comprehensive review of the costs students and families face.

“The education system, from a federal level downwards, is broken in many ways, and no more than in…

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“Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser rolled out a new online platform for residents to report misconduct by federal officers on Wednesday amid growing public concern about overreach and violence by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agents.” A link to the online form can be found in the…

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Another great resource: Connecting the Troubling History of School Privatization Efforts to the New Federal School Voucher Program. In this comprehensive memo, the Southern Education Foundation follows the throughline from Segregation Academies to the new federal voucher plan.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2026/01/22/ed-drops-appeal-order-blocking-anti-dei-guidance

Advocates for Youth partners with young people and their adult allies to champion youth rights to bodily autonomy and build power to transform policies, programs and systems to secure sexual health and equity for all youth.

As usual, Colorado Public Radio reporter Jenny Brundin provides great context and content in covering the annual survey of folks in the teaching profession. Spoiler alert: Teachers love their students, but are struggling with workload, low pay, safety concerns, and content…

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Great Education Colorado is a member of a number of national coalitions that provide reports, toolkits, messaging guidance, polling results and other resources on a wide variety of topics related to creating welcoming schools. There’s an enormous wealth of content — way too much to put on this website. Please use this discussion to ask…

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This is the best explanation I’ve seen of why the Federal Tax Credit Voucher Program created by H.R. 1 (the so-called OBBBA), would be a disaster for Colorado.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/582f7c15f7e0ab3a3c7fb141/t/6943232a4ffe0b625bed79d1/1766007594582/The+Federal+Tax+Credit+Voucher+Program-Risks+for+Public+Schools+and+Students+12.16.25.pdf

The U.S. Department of Justice and other organizations are seeking to use the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as an opportunity to whitewash history. Colorado Public Education Watch describes the effort, as well as its many Colorado connections. …

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https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/12/06/coalition-calls-on-polis-to-reject-trump-voucher-tax-credit/

And you can add your organization’s name to our letter here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-zA6heRh35mC8UQ_9TCtgG4Ko_fhvYB3_9NW4aUiMes/edit?usp=sharing

The voucher provision of HR1 (the so-called Big Beautiful Bill) is a Trojan Horse. You can add your name to our petition on the link below.

https://publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/petitions/keep-public-funds-in-public-schools

And, no surprise here: https://stateline.org/2025/05/20/rapidly-expanding-school-voucher-programs-pinch-state-budgets/

Colorado is an affluent state, but we don’t act that way. Our investment in public education (and other public services) has been strangled by TABOR for decades, and it shows. Looking at the percentage of our wealth that we put into public schools, Colorado ranks 38th. If we made the same effort as the national average, we’d be putting in…

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More helpful resources from the “Truth in Education Funding” coalition: “This website offers a wide range of tools from groups that oppose vouchers and other efforts to divert public funding in education. We work to protect the vital institution of public education and ensure all students have access to welcoming, well-resourced public schools.…

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Would love to! Here’s my calendy so you can find a good time to talk! https://calendly.om/lisa-greated

From fact sheets to historical explainers to mythbusting social media posts, this PFL website provides a wide variety of resources about the through line of segregation, discrimination and vouchers.

We should remove this test post.

Governor Polis has indicated that he is interested in opting into the new federal voucher scam that takes scarce federal dollars and directs them to private providers. Here’s why that is a bad idea for Colorado. https://edlawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Federal-Vouchers-FAQ-9-15-2025.pdf

Get a quick overview of theSchool Finance Adequacy Studies (and how to take action on them).

This is a great resource from PEER documenting how voucher programs hurt students.

Talking Points about the Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GB-a7AapmppfUCD9YcYf9iO5LDz8O9w24LtopEQ6fX8/edit?usp=sharing

“Colorado education advocacy groups are banding together to call on lawmakers to begin more seriously examining how to close the gap between the amount Colorado spends on public education and the amount necessary to fully fund schools.

Following the results of two recent adequacy studies that indicate Colorado is underfunding education by…

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You can take action: https://www.greateducation.org/email-your-legislators/

The CSFP is the go-to source for in-depth information about School Finance policy. If there’s something in particular you are looking for and can’t find it, feel free to message me and I’m happy to help! https://cosfp.org/#gsc.tab=0