Colorado Ballot Measure Tests Voter Appetite for More K-12 Funding

Education Week: Only a few months had passed since the Thompson school district's board voted to shutter two elementary schools, a desperate move to balance the 16,000-student system's dwindling budget.

So it was with much more urgency and pep on a recent Saturday morning that dozens of parents, teachers, and local education officials rallied voters here to back two local initiatives and one statewide ballot measure for higher taxes and spending they hope will at least slow a decade of fiscal bleeding.

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