How Colorado might provide more funding to schools serving migrant students, including Cherry Creek, APS

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DENVER | All Colorado school districts that have enrolled any migrant students since the Oct. 1 school funding cutoff date could get extra money — between $15,000 and $750,000 per district — under a draft bill approved unanimously on Friday by the powerful Joint Budget Committee.

But districts where the new arrivals have caused a net increase in students — meaning the district has more students now than on Oct. 1 — would get the most extra money. Those districts could get as much as an additional $4,500 for every newly arrived student.

The bill allocates $24 million to be distributed by May 31 to districts that have enrolled what it calls “new arrival students,” or students who moved to the United States less than a year ago, are not proficient in English, and are attending a U.S. school for the first time. The City of Denver alone has served more than 39,000 new arrivals from Venezuela and other South American countries since it began keeping track more than a year ago, including families with children who have enrolled in public schools.

The details of how the $24 million would be doled out are somewhat complicated. First, there is a tiered system of lump sum payments to school districts based on the number of new arrival students they’ve enrolled since the October count. Districts would get:

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I love living in a state that cares about people.

[intheflow]

1. Nice, but I don't really think of affordable housing

when I think of Cherry Creek. Where are immigrants living in that wealthy ‘burb?

Also - SO interesting Colorado is getting South and Central Americans! Here in Massachusetts we’re getting a lot of Syrian, Afghanistan, and Somali refugees, that’s our population growth point.

[HighFired49]

2. I'm jealous!

I'm stuck in Oklahoma with an insane State School Superintendent. He doesn't want to improve public schools, but wants to fund private religious ones, and put the Ten Commandments in all school rooms. I have a bunch of relatives in Colorado, however, most of them are from Rifle, and vote R.