Open Doors, Open Districts II: Charting the Rise of Public School Choice in Colorado

Aug 26, 2025 | Reports, Resources

Executive Summary Colorado continues to lead the nation in offering families access to public school choice. For over two decades, the state’s open enrollment policies have enabled families to select the public schools that best meet their children’s needs, regardless...

2023 Legislative Review

May 31, 2023 | Policy Briefs

The legislative session has finally come to an end, and despite it being difficult for conservative policies in general, there was bipartisan support for a number of bills we drafted, supported, and testified on. For the first time in Colorado history,...

The History of School Choice in Colorado

Jan 30, 2023 | Research

Introduction June 4, 1991 is perhaps the most important date in the history of the school choice movement in the United States. On that day, Minnesota’s Republican Governor, Arne Carlson, signed the Omnibus K-12 Education Finance Bill into law. Tucked into what may...

High Quality Schools Heat Map

Oct 15, 2020 | Research

The Colorado high-quality Schools Map seeks to answer a simple question: Who has access to the top public schools in Colorado? Importantly, this map gauges practical access to the top schools by accounting for things like driving time and the number of seats actually...

Open Doors, Open Districts

Oct 15, 2018 | Research

The number of parents exercising the power of school choice options is far more than most public policy debates in Colorado suggest. Over 145,000 students, or over 16 percent of the public school population, “choice” into a traditional public school other than the one...