Remedial Education (2014)

Remedial education refers to academic courses in higher education intended to improve the basic skills of new or returning college students, so that they are adequately prepared for college-level work. These basic ski...

Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade (K-12) Public School Funding (2014)

This memorandum provides an overview of K-12 funding within the context of the state's operating budget. In December 2013, about $1.1 billion was transferred from the General Fund to the State Education Fund (SEF). Th...

Statewide Student Assessments (2014)

Assessments provide teachers, parents, students, policymakers, and other stakeholders in Colorado's education system with a way of measuring student performance against state standards. First administered on a statewi...

Distribution of FY 2013-14 General Fund Surplus

The FY 2013-14 General Fund surplus is estimated at $235.8 million.1 State law requires this surplus to be distributed in the amounts and order shown in Table 1.2 Additionally, the transfer to the Capital Construction...

Child Support Enforcement (2014)

Child support is a required payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child after a divorce or other dissolution of a relationship. This issue brief summarizes how child support orders are issued, detail...

Telecommunications Modernization (2014)

Telecommunications regulation has been an active issue in the Colorado state legislature for several years. In 2014, five bills passed that changed telecommunications regulation, subsidies, and infrastructure in Color...

Academic Standards and the Common Core (2014)

Academic standards provide a broad outline for what students are expected to know and be able to do at the end of each grade level, and for what students should know in order to be prepared to enter college or the wor...

2014 Summary of Local Government Legislation

This document provides a summary of major local government legislation considered by the General Assembly during the 2014 legislative session.

2013 Colorado Cost of Living Study (2014)

2013 Colorado Cost of Living Report - Expenditure Totals

Estimated Value of School Finance Factors, Including Negative Factor FY 2014-15

ESTIMATED VALUE OF SCHOOL FINANCE FACTORS, INCLUDING NEGATIVE FACTOR, FY 2014-15

Summary of Marijuana Legislation (2014)

This document provides a summary of major marijuana legislation considered by the General Assembly during the 2014 legislative session.

Summary of Elections Legislation (2014)

This document provides a summary of major 2014 elections legislation.

Summary of Tax and Finance Legislation (2014)

The attached document provides a summary of major legislation considered by the General Assembly pertaining to taxes and fiscal policy.

School District Table (2014)

School District Table

FY 2014-15 Appropriations Report

FY 2014-15 Budget In Brief

2014 Digest of Bills

Publication of the Colorado Revised Statutes occurs several months following the end of each regular legislative session. Prior to such publication, the Office of Legislative Legal Services prepares the Digest of Bill...

Summary of Health Care Legislation (2014)

This document summaries the major pieces of legislation considered by the General Assembly during the 2014 legislative session.