in the district since the start of the year. Denver Public Schools and Aurora Public Schools districts have built plans to integrate thousands of new students — from establishing 24 school donation sites, building community hubs as an expansion of
Mental health is another service that is dramatically underfunded in Colorado — which will need to increase in schools. Theresa Myers, a spokesperson from the Greeley district, discussed the mental health needs: “A lot of these students are coming to us with severe trauma, some of the families from Venezuela, they’ve been trying to travel for months.” In the last year, 40,000 people have come to Denver, while 7 million people have left Venezuela.
Now, to some that might be substantial money, but isn’t Colorado known for paying our teachers at a level that's 39th in the nation? Aren’t we known to have not changed our school funding formula in thirty years?