Leaving Children Behind: How Colorado’s Fiscal Policies Hurt Our Most Valuable Citizens - October 2009
This report focuses on the connection between Colorado’s dramatic childhood poverty rate and the challenges of the state’s fiscal policy structure.
Student-Centered Funding and its Implications for Colorado: A Primer for Policy Makers - August 2009
This report provides a basic background of our current system of financing public education in Colorado and discusses potential opportunities and implications of introducing student-centered funding to the state.
Race to the Top: Teacher and Principal Effectiveness - August 2009
This white paper provides information to help those working on the Colorado Great Teachers and Leaders Race to The Top (R2T) Committee, and is intended to complement information provided by the Colorado Department of Education.
Race to the Top: Standards and Assessments - August 2009
This white paper provides information for those working on Colorado’s Standards and Assessments Race to the Top (R2T) Committee, and is intended to accompany information provided by the Colorado Department of Education.
Race to the Top: Establishing Data Systems and Using Data for Improvement - August 2009
This white paper provides information to Colorado’s Longitudinal Data Systems Race to the Top (R2T) committee. It is intended to complement the white paper prepared by the Colorado Department of Education.
Race to the Top: Turning Around Struggling Schools - August 2009
This white paper provides information to support the work of Colorado’s Low Performing Schools Race to the Top (R2T) Committee.
Teacher Identifiers and Improving Education Practice - August 2009
This series of five white papers explains how the teacher identifier is being used in Colorado districts and nationwide to improve teaching and learning, and provides advice to Colorado policymakers in creating a statewide teacher identifier.
Drivers of Choice: Parents, Transportation and School Choice - July 2009
This project first surveyed the landscape of transportation and school choices in Denver and Washington, D.C., to find out their travel patterns and school choice options.
Options for Autonomous Schools in the Metro Denver Area
- June 2009
This report is the result of conversations among members of Colorado’s education reform and business communities interested in encouraging the development of autonomous schools in Colorado.
Colorado STEM Network Progress Report - November 2008
Colorado was one of six states selected to receive a $500,000 two-year award from the National Governors Association to create the Colorado STEM Network.
Colorado STEM Network Report Card - March 2008
Find out how Colorado ranks on measures of preschool, K-12, and postsecondary performance in this state report card for Colorado’s P-20 education system.
Learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - January 2008
This report assesses the state of STEM education in Colorado.
Engineering the Future: Career and Technical Education Redesigned for Today’s Students - December 2007
CEPA researchers found that the best of today’s CTE classes work at the intersection between academic content and practical application. The report profiles model programs and identifies challenges.
Pay-for-Performance Teacher Compensation: An Inside View of Denver’s ProComp Plan - August 2007
Get the inside story of the ProComp initiative. The authors describe how entrepreneurial behavior within the teachers’ union and support from outside philanthropic groups propelled the plan from a cutting-edge concept into concrete policy.
Governor’s Colorado P-20 Council Brief: P-3: The Foundation of the Learning Continuum - August 2007
This briefing defines “P-3,” puts it in the context of P-20 definition, identifies the challenges of access, quality, and equity across the P-3 continuum, and poses important questions for state policymakers.
Governor’s Colorado P-20 Council Brief: Teacher Quality - August 2007
This briefing identifies key teacher quality issues, the challenges around teacher teachers, existing policy tools at the state and local district level, and poses important questions for state policymakers.
Governor’s Colorado P-20 Council Brief: Transitions Into Post-Secondary Education - August 2007
Colorado seeks to double the number of certificates and degrees awarded by the state’s postsecondary institutions. This briefing discusses current opportunities for and barriers to reaching that goal and poses important questions for state policymakers.
Governor’s Colorado P-20 Council Brief: State Educational Data Systems: How Does Colorado Measure Up? - August 2007
This briefing describes the Colorado context for collection and analysis of education data, and poses important questions for state policymakers.
Governor’s Colorado P-20 Council Brief: The Graduation Gap in Colorado - August 2007
Written by the Colorado Children’s Campaign, and CEPA, this briefing material for Governor Bill Ritter’s P-20 Council poses important questions for state policymakers.
Funding Map for After-School Programs in Colorado - July 2007
Researchers examined current and potential federal and local funding sources for after school programming and attempted to determine the degree to which Colorado providers tap into these funds.
Colorado Statewide Homeless Count - February 2007
Researchers from CEPA and the Center For Public-Private Sector Cooperation analyzed point-in-time data for the Colorado Division of Housing to describe what we know about homeless respondents, their families and children.
Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right Schools - January 2007
This report refutes some common assumptions about how low-income parents make school-choice decisions, and finds that these parents use the same techniques and tools, and are just as satisfied with their decisions as wealthier parents.
Learning Together: Assessing Colorado’s K-12 Education System - October 2006
CEPA provides research and analysis on issues affecting preK-16 education in Colorado.
Achievement Gap: Colorado’s Biggest (Education) Problem - December 2006
Colorado’s education achievement gap creates a major issue of equity and threatens to create new inefficiencies. The authors look at the size of this achievement gap and how it has changed over time.
Shining the Light: The State of Teaching in Colorado - Fall 2006
The authors examine issues of teacher quality in Colorado and provide recommendations for improving the quality of instruction for all students across the state.
Funding Colorado’s Schools: Stepping Up or Bottoming Out? - January 2005
CEPA clarifies and simplifies some of the central issues in as objective a manner as possible, so a reader can learn the basic context and trends of K-12 finance, and make sense of proposals by policymakers.
Regulation in the States - 2004
Paul Teske offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving role of state governments.
