Colorado's Education Inequality

Education inequality is a problem that we have been facing for years and will continue to face as the gap between people with different socioeconomic statuses continues to increase. I am from Colorado, and the way that the public school system is funded is through property tax. Due to redistricting the most expensive homes fall into the same school district while the areas with the most government-subsidized housing fall into separate districts. As you can imagine, this means that the amount of property taxes in each area are drastically different. So, when trying to fund the public schools, there is a large discrepancy from school district to school district. One district may have laptops in every classroom, state-of-the-art labs, and brand new facilities, while the neighboring district has inconsistent wifi that cuts out every hour and only a few communal computers that have not been updated in years. 

These issues, although heightened by Colorado’s tax laws, are not unique to Colorado. States and school districts across the country face these same inequalities and challenges. The truth of the matter is that the public school system in this country is not equal. People living in communities of primarily BIPOC have consistently been given less access to quality public education and this inequity has continued to grow over the past few years. To ensure that this is changed for the better, we need to continue pushing lawmakers to make the decisions that will benefit us and our education because the current system is just not cutting it. 

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