If Amendment 60 passes in November, students across Colorado will know it. They will soon be in more crowded classrooms and are likely to have fewer after-school and enrichment programs, course offerings and textbooks. Colorado schools will lose more than $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes.
Large class sizes, outdated textbooks, and vanishing art, music and P.E. programs are typical problems in cash-stapped Colorado schools. A series of short, comical videos highlights the school-funding shortfall and urges action toward a solution.
Some schools can turn to parent groups to fund what the district does not, which leaves schools without an affluent parent base in the dust.
The second in a series of one-minute videos that highlight school funding shortfalls in Colorado features Granny, her grandson and the U.S.S.R.
A video featuring an out-of-touch granny aims to show how Colorado schools suffer from a lack of adequate funding.
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