Colorado Education Association

No, thank you so much.

So, so NN is, it's, this has been kind of like the Colorado Education Association, we've, we've taken all the lessons learned.

It's not just CEA, it's a, it's a whole coalition that kind of, that brought this together, right? But they've taken everything they've learned over the last few years.

We knew that when TABOR came in and all the different aspects of it, we knew this was gonna really put the squeeze on public education.

We'll get into those in a minute, but these two are no-brainers in our opinion.

The first one, like we said, is Proposition NN that was referred by the legislature, brought to you by the Democrats in the legislature, and largely backed by our friends at the Colorado Education Association.

Voters will see what looks like a mandate for increasing public education, uh, dollars because that is what it is.

Uh, it's clever phrasing.

John, tell us about the people behind this initiative.

So perhaps not surprisingly, the Colorado Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, is one of the big proponents.

And, you know, they say that public schools have been underfunded for way too long, that teachers are underpaid, that when that happens, there's a lot of teacher turnover and there just aren't enough resources, whether it's supplies for school supplies or, you know, mental health for kids, that kind of stuff.

Critics would include folks like the libertarian think tank, the Independence Institute, and they say this is a de facto tax increase that Tabor is meant to protect taxpayers from government overspending.