As communities continue to recover from the lasting effects of the pandemic, the need for career oriented programs and curriculum in our schools has never been higher. At the same time, Colorado schools have lost billions of dollars over the last several years resulting in large funding gaps. One time funding can’t make up for decades of budget cuts.
Better funding of our schools will help prepare students for a dynamic and ever-changing job market by helping schools implement quality STEAM education in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math as well as vocational education and career training.
Many of our children have been educated in schools that have been severely underfunded their entire lives. Our elected officials need to make long term, sustainable investments in our schools in our future work force.
We will know schools are fully funded when we can address providing schools more opportunities to provide quality education in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, as well as career and technical education and work-based learning opportunities that will prepare students for the workforce.
