The Colorado School Stories Project
Gathering stories from parents, teachers, students & administrators around Colorado
Updated on January 24, 2008
The Colorado School Stories Project is the first coordinated effort to collect real stories about the state budget's impact on Colorado's schools. The project is collecting stories from parents, teachers, students, administrators and business leaders. The stories are being collected as video interviews, written narratives, photographs, and online surveys (see where we've been).
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The project is a collaborative effort of three nonprofit organizations:
* Great Education Colorado
* Colorado School Finance Project
* Children's Voices
Why Are We Collecting Stories?
We’re constantly hearing generalized complaints about how strapped schools are—we want to know specifics:
* Where is money/funding a problem?
* How do under-funding problems manifest themselves?
* Is this a statewide problem?
* What have local schools had to do to cope with funding issues?
* Have any school districts “found the answer” to scarce funding?
What Will We Do With the Stories?
We are documenting the real effects of inadequate school funding. We will:
* Create a powerful database of information and video clips that can be searched by subject, location, region and other relevant terms
* Produce online videos, photo galleries and DVDs
We will broadly distribute this information to educate our citizens and policymakers.
Download this description as a PDF file.
For more information, please call (303) 722-5901 or email info@greateducation.org.
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