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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. <\/em><\/p>\n

DENVER<\/strong> | Where do Colorado\u2019s gubernatorial candidates stand on education issues?<\/p>\n

Chalkbeat Colorado analyzed the education records of the candidates ahead of the primaries on June 30. The field includes two Democrats and three Republicans.<\/p>\n

Read about each of the three Republican Party candidates below, and the Democrats below that.<\/p>\n

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State Rep. Scott Bottoms \u2013 R<\/h2>\n

What is Bottoms\u2019 record on education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bottoms, 55, has served as a Colorado state representative since 2023. The Colorado Springs resident is pastor of the Colorado Springs Church at Briargate and a U.S. Navy veteran.<\/p>\n

Bottoms called the state\u2019s education system \u201cbroken\u201d in an interview with KUNC.<\/p>\n

During his three years as a state representative, Bottoms has sponsored three bills related to transgender youth, including one that would have banned the participation of transgender students in gendered sports unless they were co-ed. All three bills failed.<\/p>\n

In a Colorado Sun questionnaire, Bottoms has said he supports Initiatives 108, 109 and 110.<\/p>\n

Initiative 108 would require a person convicted of trafficking a child for sexual servitude to serve life in prison. Initiative 109 would require student athletes to participate on teams that match their sex assigned at birth. And Initiative 110 would prohibit surgeries for children under age 18 that alter their biological sex characteristics.<\/p>\n

The Bottoms campaign did not respond to requests for an interview before deadline, or say whether he would enroll Colorado in the new federal education tax-credit program.<\/p>\n

What is Bottoms\u2019 platform for education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporting parents\u2019 right to direct their child\u2019s education.<\/p>\n

Offering tax incentives for stay-at-home parents and caregivers.<\/p>\n

Pushing for curriculum transparency and allowing for school boards to reject \u201cstate-imposed ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protecting kids from politicized content, boosting online safety, and ensuring students can only compete in gendered sports based on their sex assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

Reforming family courts, education, and healthcare, as well as addressing grandparents\u2019 rights, after-school programs, and parental issues.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer \u2013 R<\/h2>\n

What is Kirkmeyer\u2019s record on education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer, 67, is a Weld County resident who has a bachelor of science in education from the University of Colorado Boulder. She\u2019s spent most of her career working as a dairy farmer and small business owner.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer\u2019s first year in the Colorado Senate was in 2021, and she has served on the Senate Education Committee. She also spent four years on the powerful Joint Budget Committee, which helps craft the state budget.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer has been an active member of the state legislature, filing over 300 bills. Many have involved education.<\/p>\n

Kirkemeyer sponsored bipartisan laws to create a task force to study the statewide K-12 education accountability system, establish a grant program to help schools affected by the mineral and gas industry create park-like environments at schools, and allow high school students to take four-year university courses off campus.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s often talked about the need to protect state education funding through difficult budget cuts, although she\u2019s against tax increases.<\/p>\n

This year, she was part of a group of lawmakers that filed the state\u2019s School Finance Act ahead of the state budget. The school funding bill didn\u2019t get considered until after the state budget, but district leaders said the early filing allowed them to provide more feedback on their needs before its passage.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer has said she will vote yes on Initiatives 108, 109 and 110.<\/p>\n

In a Colorado Public Radio interview, Kirkmeyer highlighted that she helped end the budget stabilization factor, which allowed lawmakers to divert money away from education for other priorities. Lawmakers ended the practice in 2024, though Kirkmeyer said the state still underfunds education.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t respond to requests for an interview before deadline, and didn\u2019t answer a question about her position on the new federal education tax credits.<\/p>\n

What is Kirkmeyer\u2019s platform for education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Requiring at least 65% of state funding to be spent in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Ensuring programs are backed by evidence before funding can continue.<\/p>\n

Supporting district efforts to ban cellphones in classrooms.<\/p>\n

Ensuring every high school has a police officer on site.<\/p>\n

Equipping schools with camera systems that have artificial intelligence weapons-detection systems to speed up threat detection and public safety officials\u2019 reaction times.<\/p>\n

Victor Marx \u2013 R<\/h2>\n

What is Marx\u2019s record on education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marx, 60, is the founder and CEO of All Things Possible, a nonprofit humanitarian ministry. The Colorado Springs resident is also an author who has written two books about his life.<\/p>\n

In interviews, Marx has focused on his leadership experience as a political outsider. He has little documented experience with education issues and hasn\u2019t said much about them in interviews.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Colorado Public Radio, Marx said he wants to make it easier for families to pay for childcare. And in campaign videos, Marx has said he wants to help young people stay in Colorado after they\u2019ve gone to college.<\/p>\n

Marx said in a Colorado Sun candidate questionnaire that he supports Initiatives 108, 109 and 110.<\/p>\n

Marx\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t respond to requests for an interview, and didn\u2019t say what his position is about the new federal tax credits for education.<\/p>\n

What is Marx\u2019s education platform?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one major mention of an education policy on his campaign website calls to direct the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment to expand apprenticeship programs, as well as create workforce pipelines in construction, technology, energy, and other fields.<\/p>\n

His website says Marx wants to provide incentives to employers that sponsor apprenticeships through tax benefits and recruitment support. He also wants to guarantee that apprentices have pathways to enter various fields.<\/p>\n

Democratic gubernatorial candidates<\/h2>\n

Read about each of the Democratic Party candidates below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet -D<\/h2>\n

What is Bennet\u2019s record on education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bennet, 61, who resides in Denver, has served as a United States senator since 2009. Education has been a pillar of his political career, including during an unsuccessful 2019 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Bennet\u2019s education experience started in 2005, when he was hired as superintendent of the state\u2019s largest school district, Denver Public Schools.<\/p>\n

Under Bennet, Denver Public Schools shut down low-performing and underenrolled schools, expanded school choice, and allowed more charter schools to operate in the district. The changes he made helped improve student academic achievement, but some remain controversial to this day.<\/p>\n

Bennet left Denver Public Schools when he was appointed to fill an open U.S. Senate seat in 2009. In Congress, he helped usher in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which succeeded the No Child Left Behind Act and is the primary federal law governing K-12 education.<\/p>\n

He serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and notably voted against the appointment of Betsy DeVos to be U.S. education secretary in 2017.<\/p>\n

Bennet has said Colorado needs to make childcare more affordable, including by creating a dedicated funding source and using underenrolled schools to house early childhood programs. He also said he believes Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 focus on kindergarten and early childhood has been a success.<\/p>\n

Bennet\u2019s campaign said he doesn\u2019t support private school vouchers or public funds going to private or religious schools.<\/p>\n

But Bennet believes rejecting a federal program that would provide tax credits for donations to scholarship-granting organizations \u201ccould be short sighted and put millions of dollars that could help kids in Colorado at risk.\u201d He believes Colorado should wait until rules for the programs are finalized before making a decision, his campaign said.<\/p>\n

What is Bennet\u2019s platform for education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raising wages for Colorado educators.<\/p>\n

Increasing the number of educator training programs, including apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

Improving statewide resources and training for teaching math and reading.<\/p>\n

Tackling student mental health challenges, curbing violence in schools, and creating more opportunities for kids to get outdoors.<\/p>\n

Making Colorado the first state where every student will earn a living wage after high school by increasing the number of career training and college classes offered in high school, and boosting access to apprenticeships and industry credentials.<\/p>\n

Bennet said he wants to be an education governor<\/p>\n

In an interview, Bennet said he would be an education governor who understands that school district officials need state funding and support.<\/p>\n

He highlighted his record in Denver Public Schools, where he said he helped raise academic achievement, improved graduation rates, and curbed the dropout rate. A 2024 study by the University of Colorado Denver\u2019s Center for Education Policy Analysis backs up some of his claims.<\/p>\n

Bennet said he still believes that the state\u2019s education system needs changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in Colorado we have the opportunity for the whole country to pursue quality at scale, pursue rigor at scale, and give teachers and school districts the support they need to be able to deliver for our kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Phil Weiser -D<\/h2>\n

What is Weiser\u2019s record on education?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weiser, 55, who lives in Denver, has served as the state\u2019s attorney general since 2019. As attorney general, Weiser has focused on school safety and student mental health.<\/p>\n

Weiser\u2019s office leads the state\u2019s Safe2Tell program, which allows students to anonymously report violent threats. He\u2019s also helped oversee the program\u2019s expansion.<\/p>\n

Weiser issued grants to help curb student cellphone use in schools, even before state lawmakers required districts to create policies about it.<\/p>\n

He also oversees the Office of School Safety and the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and sought to provide training to teachers and school administrators as gun laws have evolved.<\/p>\n

Weiser recently backed a state law that requires school districts to publicly display how they help at-risk students and issued grants to combat youth vaping.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also said that technical education should expand to more districts. He backed the creation of youth apprenticeship program CareerWise Colorado a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Weiser has been active in suing the Trump administration, including several lawsuits related to education and childcare.<\/p>\n

And Weiser has said he would not participate in the federal tax credit program if elected. He said he believes it would take money away from public education.<\/p>\n

What is Weiser\u2019s platform for education?<\/p>\n

Preserving funding for effective prenatal and early childhood programs.<\/p>\n

Creating strategies for childhood mental health.<\/p>\n

Increasing funding for childcare access to make it more affordable.<\/p>\n

Increasing funding for teacher pay.<\/p>\n

Expanding apprenticeships, career and technical education, and low-cost job training options.<\/p>\n

Weiser wants to support schools and student safety<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview, Weiser said the state is not spending enough money to help students.<\/p>\n

He said kids are struggling with mental health issues, a lack of access to early childhood education, and scant career and technical educational offerings.<\/p>\n

Weiser said he would fund new education programs through changes to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. These shifts would require taxpayer approval.<\/p>\n

As governor, he hopes to also increase the number of mentorship opportunities that benefit kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m governor, I\u2019m going to make a full-throated commitment to invest in our kids\u2019 future from cradle to early childhood education to career workforce skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jason Gonzales is a reporter covering higher education and the Colorado legislature. Chalkbeat Colorado partners with Open Campus on higher education coverage. Contact Jason at jgonzales@chalkbeat.org. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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