Colorado Choice
Charter schools continue to flourish in Colorado, as they are across the nation. Currently, there are over 56,000 students attending more than 140 charter schools in our state. Through charter schools, including innovative online schools, and scholarship organizations like ACE, thousands of Colorado children have educational options. However, far too many low-income children have no options.
ACE played a central role to change this inequality in 2003. Colorado was poised to become a leader in the school choice movement when then-Governor Bill Owens signed into law the Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program. This program would have empowered low-income parents with the freedom to send their children to the local private school of their choice.
Tragically, that significant legislation did not survive the politics of the day; the Colorado Education Association sued to shut down the program and the State Supreme Court, siding with the powerful teacher’s union, struck down the law on a technicality.
Since that time, Colorado’s school choice movement has acted strategically in its advocacy and policy initiatives, with such innovative alternatives as online charter schools.
ACE continues to advocate for expanded school choice in Colorado, all the while increasing its scholarship recipient pool to provide more low-income children with educational options.
Colorado has a significant network of school choice advocates, all of whom ACE works with closely to promote parental educational choice:
ACE played a central role to change this inequality in 2003. Colorado was poised to become a leader in the school choice movement when then-Governor Bill Owens signed into law the Colorado Opportunity Contract Pilot Program. This program would have empowered low-income parents with the freedom to send their children to the local private school of their choice.
Tragically, that significant legislation did not survive the politics of the day; the Colorado Education Association sued to shut down the program and the State Supreme Court, siding with the powerful teacher’s union, struck down the law on a technicality.
Since that time, Colorado’s school choice movement has acted strategically in its advocacy and policy initiatives, with such innovative alternatives as online charter schools.
ACE continues to advocate for expanded school choice in Colorado, all the while increasing its scholarship recipient pool to provide more low-income children with educational options.
Colorado has a significant network of school choice advocates, all of whom ACE works with closely to promote parental educational choice:
- Parents Challenge
- Colorado League of Charter Schools
- School Choice for Kids
- Independence Institute
- Colorado Uplift
- College Summit
- Save Our Youth
Colorado School Choice Resources
- School Choice for Kids
- Colorado Dept of Education
- Independence Institute's Education Policy Center
- Colorado League of Charter Schools
- Parents Challenge
