Declining K-12 Enrollment is a Wake-Up Call
In a recent guest column in the Denver Gazette, ACE Scholarships CEO Norton Rainey frames Colorado’s ongoing drop in K-12 public school enrollment as a signal to rethink educational models rather than sound a crisis alarm. Noting that about 10,000 fewer students attended public schools statewide last year, Rainey argues that demographic shifts and evolving family preferences are driving the trend and that expanding educational choice — including support linked to the state’s new Education Freedom Tax Credit — can help meet diverse student needs without weakening public education.
July 2026
Leaders of the nation’s largest teachers unions recently sent a letter urging Democratic governors to refrain from participating in the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit. Their message was ...
July 2026
As America marks its 250th anniversary, we have an opportunity to reflect on one of history’s greatest experiments. The Founders established a nation unlike any the world had ever seen, ...
April 2026
Norton Rainey, CEO of ACE Scholarships, a national non-profit K-12 Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO) that has delivered more than 121,000 scholarships worth more than $395 million to lower-income ...
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