The Denver Post editorial: Colorado charter schools deserve equal share of education funds
Charter schools in Colorado often aren’t receiving an equal share, or any share, of local tax revenue generated by voter-approved property tax increases that are known as mill-levy overrides.
Voters have approved mill-levy overrides in more than 30 districts to fund schools over what the state sets as a limit for property assessment, and the time for districts to share that money with charter schools has come.
According to a survey conducted last year by the League of Charter Schools, a half-dozen of those school districts are already sharing all of the revenue from those tax increases. About another dozen are sharing less than 50 percent and some of those districts are giving none of that revenue to charter schools.