Las Animas - Bent County Library District

HB 10-1183 created an Alternative School Funding Model Pilot Program which encouraged districts and charter schools to test alternative models of school funding by collecting data to show the effects a model would have if it were implemented.

Advocates for increased privatization of public schools have long contended that private schools could provide equal or better outcomes at lesser costs. To bolster that argument, this EdChoice report asserts that voucher and voucher-like (tax credit scholarship and education savings account) programs have saved state and local treasuries some $12.4 to $28.3 billion dollars as student "switchers" use those programs to leave public schools and enter...