A new report that looked at the progress of Colorado children on education, health and economic milestones found that while children of color are making progress, it isn’t enough.

The Colorado Children’s Campaign Tuesday released that national report, known as Race for Results, which was conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy that distributes grants to help children in need.

The report said that opportunities for black, Native American and Hispanic children in Colorado have improved as compared to white children, and more so than in most other states.

Black children in Colorado outpaced their peers in other states on enrollment in preschool, nursery school or kindergarten, the report said, with 70 percent of those children between ages 3 and 5 enrolled. Nationally, the average is around 63 percent. The report also said that 27 percent of black fourth-graders read at grade level, compared to a national average of 18 percent. But Hispanic and Latino children in Colorado didn’t fare as well compared to the national average.

The Colorado Children’s Campaign hopes the report’s findings will help persuade state lawmakers to make changes in state policy. Those changes include renewing the Colorado Child Care Contribution Credit, legislative improvements to school lunch programs, and the biggest bite of all, reforming the school finance act.

The Campaign also wants lawmakers to look at “exclusionary school discipline unrelated to safety.” According to spokesperson Tara Matheny, thousands of children, disproportionately boys, black children, Latino boys, and children with disabilities, are disciplined and removed from school at a time when school can have the greatest impact. Legislators should continue to look at how to support alternatives to suspensions and expulsions that are based more on teaching appropriate behavior than punishment, Matheny said.

The report also looked at the well-being of children in immigrant families, especially children of color. These children face additional challenges, the report said, including separation, educational hurdles and chronic poverty. Colorado has 282,00 children in immigrant families, the majority of which are U.S. citizens, the Campaign said in a statement. Most live in poverty. But despite those barriers, those children are more likely to live in two-parent households and attend preschool and school at the same rate as their peers.