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RE-1 Valley’s persistence pays off with proposed $8.4 million BEST grant
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, Local

RE-1 Valley’s persistence pays off with proposed $8.4 million BEST grant

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project RE-1 Valley gets a BEST grant Let’s turn to something local (for me at least): per the article linked first below, RE-1 Valley school district got their long sought-after BEST grant. Before some detail on that, let’s back up a step. In case you weren’t familiar, BEST (Building Excellent Schools Today) grants are money that comes from the state to be used primarily to, quoting their webpage linked second below, “… resolve health, safety, and security issues in Colorado public schools.” It is a competitive grant program, meaning schools from across the state compete for the grants in any given yearly cycle. As a quick side note (more available at the BEST webpage) since it’s been a topic on this page mult...
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The marijuana money for Colorado schools shrank. A 2025 law decided where the rest goes.
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

The marijuana money for Colorado schools shrank. A 2025 law decided where the rest goes.

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice For years the story about Colorado's marijuana taxes and its schools ran in one direction. Sales climbed, revenue climbed, and a share of it went to a fund that helps districts repair aging buildings. When sales started falling, the natural assumption followed. Less marijuana money, less for schools. That assumption is incomplete, and the reason is buried in how the money is structured. The marijuana excise tax that flows to school construction has dropped to about the level the state constitution singles out for protection.  The first $40 million collected each year is reserved for construction before anything else can touch it. Marijuana collections are now close to that line, which means the protected piece ...
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Fort Collins Charter School Secures $1.8M Federal Grant for Expansion
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The Coloradoan, Approved, Local

Fort Collins Charter School Secures $1.8M Federal Grant for Expansion

By: Kelly Lyell | The Coloradoan Liberty Common School has been awarded a federal grant of nearly $1.8 million in support of the continued construction of its new junior high school campus, a school spokesperson said in a news release. Liberty Common opened the new junior high school for seventh and eighth graders this fall in one of two adjacent commercial buildings at 1825 Sharp Point Drive in east Fort Collins. The junior high school will expand into the second building and new facilities connecting the two for the 2026-27 school year, co-founder and Headmaster Bob Schaffer said in August while leading a Coloradoan reporter in a tour of the first of two phases of planned renovations. The second phase is underway and will include a gymnasium, locker rooms...
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