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If you spent $15,000 on a new roof and it leaked, what would you say if the contractor replied, \u201cWell, nearly half of your roof didn\u2019t leak! And your roof actually leaks less than a roof we installed last year. So you should be thanking us!\u201d I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and guess you would not be very satisfied with such service.<\/p>\n

Yet, when it comes to public education, many Coloradans routinely accept abysmal results without so much as blinking.<\/p>\n

Colorado schools still failing<\/h3>\n

Chalkbeat\u00a0recently published preliminary\u00a0results from the latest Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) tests. Here\u2019s how the headline spins the results: \u201cStudent math proficiency rises but literacy results are mixed.\u201d A more accurate headline would be, \u201cColorado student achievement remains in the toilet as schools utterly fail to educate many students in math and literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, math proficiency \u201crose\u201d this year\u2014to 39% in fourth grade and 37.8% in eighth grade. This is like bragging that your F in class is slightly less bad than the last F you got. Hurrah, I guess. English proficiency was somewhat higher, at 47% in fourth grade and 42.2% in eighth grade. Put another way, over half of students cannot read at grade level.<\/p>\n

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True, the\u00a0eleventh grade SAT, which uses different metrics, suggests that in language 59.6% of students who took the test are \u201ccollege ready\u201d (while in math only 31.6% of students are). For more context, see Colorado results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, taxpayers are on the hook for $15,805 per student, for a total of $13,926 billion (as of the 2023\u201324 fiscal year), to finance the public school system. If a private roofing contractor performed so poorly, Phil Weiser probably would investigate the company for fraud. But I guess we have much higher standards for roofs than we do for the education of children.<\/p>\n

A broader discussion<\/h3>\n

I do think the CMAS results give us good reason to be alarmed about the state of the public schools. And we haven\u2019t even seen this year\u2019s disparities by race\/ethnicity, which, judging from previous years, will be dramatic.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my comparison with roofs has some obvious limitations. Putting on a roof is a one-time, short-term job, and it\u2019s either done right or not. Education is not like that. Education is a multi-year process, students move around a lot, some students are naturally more academically oriented, some students struggle with dyslexia or other neurological issues, and some students come from difficult family circumstances.<\/p>\n

Plus, education is a multifaceted enterprise, so maybe standardized tests aren\u2019t a good way to measure education achievement in any broad sense. A child may be excellent in music, sculpture, or empathetic treatment of friends and yet score poorly on a given test.<\/p>\n

Plus, some students are doing quite well. I don\u2019t think anyone worries about students managing Advance Placement classes or the International Baccalaureate program. And some schools have outstanding results.\u00a0For example, in 2025, an astonishing 94.7% of students at Boulder\u2019s High Peaks Elementary met or exceeded expectations in language, while 92.5% did in math.<\/p>\n

Standardized tests are so unpopular that the\u00a0legislature cut the social studies\u00a0portion of the CMAS to a single grade.\u00a0Another bill sought\u00a0(per the summary) to \u201censure that standardized summative assessments are administered to students to the minimum extent possible.\u201d That bill lost.<\/p>\n

Plenty of people argue that standardized testing makes education worse by encouraging schools and teachers to \u201cteach to the test\u201d at the expense of other meaningful experiences. In the homeschooling world (my wife and I homeschool our ten-year-old), I\u2019ve heard parents say that one reason they don\u2019t like the regular schools is their \u201cdrill and kill,\u201d \u201cteach to the test\u201d atmosphere.<\/p>\n

I would respond that, insofar as we\u2019re talking about taxpayer money, standardized testing is the only way to give taxpayers any meaningful information about how schools are performing.<\/p>\n

Speaking of homeschooling, although my ten-year-old scores in the top one percent on the California Achievement Test, I don\u2019t claim my family\u2019s experiences are representative. In\u00a0March, Brian Ray argued\u00a0that on balance available studies \u201cshow homeschool students outperforming institutional school peers on academic tests.\u201d But he acknowledges the limits of those studies.<\/p>\n

What matters is not whether homeschoolers do better than other students (we have to account for selection effects) but under what conditions a particular student would thrive. Undoubtedly some students would do better moving from a school setting to a homeschool setting, while some homeschool students would do better academically if they switched to school. But, again, a lot more than test scores matter for a child\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Whose money is it?<\/h3>\n

Ann Schimke\u00a0writes for Chalkbeat\u00a0(June 11) that various homeschool \u201cenrichment programs cost the state tens of millions of dollars.\u201d Another way to look at this is that homeschoolers saved the state tens of millions of dollars. Yet another way to look at this is that much of this money morally belongs to homeschooling families in the first place, and so to that degree the programs did not \u201ccost the state\u201d anything. Instead, the state is costing homeschoolers. But Schimke is entirely uninterested in such nuance.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Education, the state spends $15,805 per public-school student.\u00a0As Schimke pointed\u00a0out on May 19, enrichment programs cost \u201cmore than $100 million a year\u201d at a per-student cost of \u201cabout $6,000 a year on average.\u201d So homeschoolers are saving the state a boatload of money by using an enrichment program rather than attending regular public school.<\/p>\n

Again whose money is it? Homeschooling families pay education-directed tax dollars just like everyone else. Do we (homeschooling families) have no moral right to use any of that money for the education of our own children?<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Census Bureau says that, of the nearly 2.5 million Colorado households (as of 2024), nearly 668,000 of them have \u201cone or more people under 18 years.\u201d So around 27% of all households have children, implying that maybe 20% of households have school-age children. This suggests (very roughly) that the average homeschool family spends over $3,000 per year in education-directed taxes.<\/p>\n

How about this as a plan: We homeschoolers give up enrichment programs and instead just get to keep our own education-directed tax dollars. If anyone is tempted to say this would \u201ccost\u201d the state money, my retort is, it\u2019s my family\u2019s money!<\/p>\n

How does this relate to standardized tests and to Colorado schools\u2019 overall abysmal CMAS performance? When other people are forced to pay the bill, understandably they at least want some assurance that the funds are spent in reasonable ways. Many taxpayers want good test results, and many want to cut off questionable homeschool enrichment expenses.<\/p>\n

Insofar as education involves forcing people to fund it, education becomes inherently political as taxpayers, legislators, bureaucrats, and recipients fight over how to spend the money.<\/p>\n

We could try not forcing people to fund education, incentivizing parents to guard the effectiveness of their educational dollars. But, as everyone knows, that\u2019s crazy talk.<\/p>\n

Ari Armstrong\u00a0writes regularly for Complete Colorado and is the author of books about Ayn Rand, Harry Potter, and classical liberalism. He can be reached at ari at ariarmstrong dot com.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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