Colorado’s public-school enrollment is shrinking. Few places feel it more than Woodland Park, nestled on Pikes Peak’s north slope.
Now, the one school stabilizing enrollment in Woodland Park School District is also the one bearing the burden of the district’s own financial turmoil.
Colorado funds schools using per-pupil revenue from local property taxes and state equalization dollars. Although lawmakers have steadily increased PPR, fewer students can mean less money…