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Colorado Amendment 6, Educational Standards and Funding Initiative (1992)
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| Type Initiated state statute |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment 6 was on the ballot as an initiated state statute in Colorado on November 3, 1992. It was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported establishing procedures for maintaining educational standards, requiring periodic administrative audits, increasing the sales and use tax with revenue from the increase dedicated to public schools, and recreating the Colorado Achievement "COACH" Commission. |
A “no” vote opposed establishing procedures for maintaining educational standards, requiring periodic administrative audits, increasing the sales and use tax with revenue from the increase dedicated to public schools, and recreating the Colorado Achievement "COACH" Commission. |
Election results
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Colorado Amendment 6 |
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| Yes | 693,231 | 45.61% | ||
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826,787 | 54.39% | ||
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- Results are officially certified.
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Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment 6 was as follows:
| “ | An act to provide for the establishment of a system of educational standards and assessments for public schools; to require school districts to develop strategic action plans to enable achievement of such standards; to require certified diplomas for graduates who meet certain standards and remedial instruction for those that do not; to require shared decision making at the school building to require that early childhood education be provided to certain children: to mandate periodic administrative audits of school districts and annual school district reports; to provide monetary grants to school districts; to increase the 3 percent rate of state sales and use tax to 4 percent to provide increased state revenues from the additional 1 percent
to be applied solely to fund public schools; to specify a minimum amount as the state share of equalization program funding to repeal and supersede my conflicting laws and to supersede any existing statutory tax limitations: and to recreate the Colorado Achievement "COACH" Commission. | ” |
Path to the ballot
In Colorado, proponents needed to collect a number of signatures for an initiated state statute.
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