Colorado Requirements for Providing Public Education Initiative (2018)
| Colorado Requirements for Providing Public Education Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Requirements for Providing Public Education Initiative was not on the ballot in Colorado as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure was designed to require the state of Colorado to provide and fully fund early-childhood, primary, and secondary education for citizens up to the age of 21. As of 2017, the state constitution required, "The general assembly shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and uniform system of free public schools throughout the state, wherein all residents of the state, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, may be educated gratuitously." The measure would have removed the current language about practicability and specify the differing levels of education that should be provided and funded.[1]
Text of measure
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The full text of the measure can be viewed here.
Path to the ballot
Martha Olson and Donald J. Anderson submitted the initiative to the Colorado Legislative Counsel for review and comment on November 8, 2017. On November 17, 2017, the counsel offered comments. Compliance with these recommendations is not required. Proponents submitted a draft to the Colorado secretary of state on November 24, 2017. On December 6, 2017, the secretary of state determined that the initiative meets the single-subject rule required by the state of Colorado and set a ballot title.[1][2]
The number of signatures required for a successful petition is equal to 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office of secretary of state in the last general election. The same number of signatures is required for constitutional amendments, statutes, and referendums. In 2018, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment was 98,492. Due to the passage of Amendment 71 in November 2016, signatures equivalent to at least 2 percent of the registered electors who reside in the state's 35 senate districts must be part of the total.
In Colorado, petitioners have six months to collect signatures after the ballot language and title are finalized. The Colorado Constitution says that signatures must be filed three months before the election at which the measure would appear. In 2018, three months before the November election would have been August 6.
The measure did not qualify for the November 2018 ballot because it had either (a) never been cleared for signature gathering, (b) was abandoned by sponsors, or (c) otherwise reached a certain stage in the initiative process, but did not make the ballot.
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