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EDITORIAL: SECURING THE FUTURE OF SCHOOL CHOICE IN COLORADO

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(third from left), Colorado Springs School District 11 Superintendent Michael
Gaal, and Roosevelt educators during the governor’s recent visit to the charter
school in El Paso County. Polis is an advocate of the publicly funded,
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Why might Colorado parents want to reaffirm their right to school choice by
adding it to the state constitution? Isn’t our state already a national leader
in offering pre-K-12 educational options?

Homeschooling, online learning and of course charter schools are thriving and
broadly popular in Colorado. As of the 2022-23 academic year, 268 public charter
schools were educating, uplifting and, in many cases, changing the lives of more
than 137,000 students across Colorado. That’s over 15% of public school
enrollment, a big stride for public education.

So, why worry?




Because the coast is far from clear for school choice — despite its wide-ranging
public support and its many political allies, including Gov. Jared Polis.



Look no further than a bill in the spring 2024 legislative session, which
adjourned last month. House Bill 24-1363 sought to inflict a death by a thousand
cuts on Colorado’s nationally acclaimed and broadly popular charter schools. The
legislation would have attacked the publicly funded, autonomously designed and
run charters from every angle.

Behind its pretext as an effort to increase charter school accountability — as
if it were needed — was a bill full of booby traps. It cynically set up obscure,
arcane policy twists intended to do their damage while flying under the radar.
It would have suffocated applications for new charters as well as charter
schools in operation with  bureaucratic requirements masquerading as checks and
balances.

The bill had the backing of big guns — particularly the teachers unions, which
bitterly oppose charter schools. But it ran into opposition from school-choice
supporters among the Legislature’s ruling Democrats, as well as from their
fellow Democrat and staunch charter-school supporter in the Governor’s Mansion.
The bill at last died in a committee in April.

But even if that assault was stopped, it is one of only many that have been
mounted by choice opponents in the Legislature — and many more that are likely
to be attempted.




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Which is why the pro-school choice advocacy group Advance Colorado has decided
to launch a preemptive strike. Noting the “annual barrage of legislative
assaults” on school choice, the group has written a citizens initiative that
would ask voters statewide to secure school choice in the Colorado Constitution.



This week, the group released a white paper it wrote that shores up the case for
the ballot initiative.

“The current bipartisan consensus surrounding school choice, including the
support of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis (a charter school founder), is not
permanently guaranteed,” Advance Colorado warned in a news release Thursday.
“The reform needed to secure those rights is to place them in the state
Constitution.”

The group contends its Initiative 138 “will create very high legal hurdles to
repealing or diminishing these rights.”

“The people of Colorado cannot afford to wait for anti-choice activists to take
away educational options for children,” the white paper states.  “Putting the
right to school choice in the Colorado Constitution grants it legal advantages a
normal statute does not have.”

It seems supporters of school choice are fed up after decades of attempts to
sabotage meaningful options for kids. Perhaps enough Colorado parents are fed up
to enact constitutional guarantees.

For more information, go to: www.advancecolorado.org




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