Author: Erica Meltzer

A group of Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon plugging numbers into a proposed new school finance formula, squinting at a projection of a computer model to determine “whose cheese got moved.” The phrase — borrowed from the popular management book “Who Moved My Cheese?” about how people deal with change — has become the go-to metaphor…

In a change that one lawmaker is calling a “paradigm shift,” Colorado’s school funding formula eventually could take into account how many students in each district are learning English or have disabilities that require additional services — needs with which state funding has not kept pace. That’s a key component of draft legislation that will…