Three Colorado school districts asking their voters for more funding this November receive among the lowest amounts of dollars per student from the state and lag significantly behind districts of similar size.

Each district is asking voters to increase their property taxes. Known as mill-levy overrides, the requests appear on the ballots of voters in Greeley-Evans School District 6, Brighton District 27J and Mesa County Valley School District 51. These are small steps toward leveling the playing field in Colorado’s hugely unequal funding formula.

It appears unlikely a solution to the problem will come at the state level anytime soon. Voters have soundly rejected statewide measures that would have addressed the school funding formula issues in part by infusing a huge amount of cash into the state funding for schools. The political will to fix the problem legislatively will be hard to find.

Read more at The Denver Post.