education

HB 06-1024 represents a net opportunity gain for Colorado. It establishes an accountability mechanism within the state's higher education performance contracts that specifically addresses institutional commitment to, and support for, retention and success of low income and minority students.

Articles from newspapers around the state reporting on the Bell Policy Center's Education White Papers that outline the acheivement gap in Colorado.

DENVER, CO???. Although most Coloradans have access to the kinds of opportunities that enable them to get ahead in life, significant health, educational and economic barriers still stand in the way of far too many families, according to a new report issued by the nonprofit Bell Policy Center.

Calling the ???CollegeInColorado??? statewide marketing campaign for higher education unveiled today by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education ???a good first step,??? Wade Buchanan, president of Bell Policy Center, today called upon CCHE to launch an all-out effort to expand access to higher education for all Coloradoans, and especially for underserved low-income and minority students, in a letter to CCHE Executive Director Rick O'Donnell.

The 2005 statewide CSAP scores indicate the achievement gap between student scores widened on some tests in some grades but narrowed in others. For the most part, a persistent and significant gap in student achievement continues in Colorado.

In November, Colorado voters will be asked to impose a 65 percent spending framework on school districts in either of two ballot questions: Amendment 39 and Referendum J. The competing proposals would require school districts to spend at least 65 percent of their operating funds on classroom instruction or student achievement. The idea sounds sensible, but it doesn???t deliver.

HB 06-1024 represents a net opportunity gain for Colorado. It establishes an accountability mechanism within the state???s higher education performance contracts that specifically addresses institutional commitment to, and support for, retention and success of low income and minority students.