Classroom Cuts Continue

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Some schools may lose art classes next school year.

Students returning to school next month may face some changes: crowded classrooms, no art or field trips – or even a four day school week. Last month, districts finalized their budgets and many had to make cuts, even as state funding is stabilizing. Host Ryan Warner asked Tracie Rainey of the Colorado School Finance Project to explain why. Her group tracks school finance and surveys school districts to find out what’s in their budgets.

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Colorado School Finance Project