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Proposition 119 would raise taxes on marijuana sales by 5% over the next three years. Nonpartisan analysts at the Capitol say the Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program – or LEAP for short – would net more than $100 million for the program during the next fiscal year.
A classroom at Denver’s South High School, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. A bipartisan coalition hopes to ask the state’s residents to pass a ballot measure in the fall that they say would help Colorado’s children recover from pandemic-related learning loss and close persistent decades-long academic learning gaps. If passed, supporters say Colorado would be the first state in the country to build a long-term plan to prevent learning gaps from forming in the first place through after-school and summer programming. The ballot initiative could provide as much as $1,500 to low-income families to ch...
A group of education advocates are working to put a measure on this yearâs ballot designed to enhance out-of-school learning opportunities to help youth do better in school. The idea, which would be funded by a 5% increase in the stateâs taxes on recreational marijuana, would provide free funding for such things as tutors, special technical training or learning English or some other foreign language. The measure would create the Colorado Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program, which also would provide for a replacement to curricula that some school districts have stopped ...