PROTECT our PUBLIC SCHOOLs

Amendment 80 Hurts our schools

Hurts our public schools

Amendment 80 opens the door to taking money from public schools to fund private schools. Our public schools need more teachers and support staff, better pay, and smaller class sizes.

Amendment 80 will make it harder to fund these improvements and will hurt public schools -- which serve 95% of Colorado students -- to fund private schools.

Hurts our rural schools

Most rural areas don't even have private schools. Funding private schools would only drain money away from rural public schools to subsidize private schools in Denver and Boulder.

We don't need it

Private schools don't belong in the constitution

Private schools can pick and choose who attends. Some won't accept children with same-sex parents or kids with special needs. We should focus our funding on improving public schools, which are open to all students, not selective private schools.

Colorado already has school choice

Amendment 80 is unnecessary because school choice is already protected in law, and has been for 30 years. What Amendment 80 actually does is permanently lock in a right to private schools in the constitution for the first time ever.