Rural Colorado school districts that once served students online could see brunt of major state budget cuts
Mar 26, 2025
Rural Colorado school districts that once served students online could see brunt of major state budget cuts
Colorado Sun
As Colorado lawmakers try to solve a state budget crisis, Gov. Jared Polis’ office is advocating for a new set of changes to student averaging that would significantly impact a handful of rural school districts and charter schools that found a lifeline for their budgets by enrolling online homeschool students.
Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
New data for the 2025-2026 school year show that homeschooling participation continued to grow across the country, but the pace of that growth has slowed.
EdWeek
The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.